The Stonycreek River from the Franklin Street Bridge southward to the Poplar Street Bridge is hereby declared to be a public highway and watercourse. The width thereof shall be 225 feet at the bottom of the channel and the boundary lines at the bottom shall be as follows:
The boundary line of the right bank shall begin at the upper river face corner of the north abutment of the Franklin Street Bridge; thence south sixty-one degrees and fifty-one minutes east 120 feet to the lower corner of the river wall, intersecting with the upper side line of old Beulah fording approach; thence along such river wall south sixty-six degrees and ten minutes east 358 feet, south sixty-two degrees and five minutes east 215 feet to a point; thence by a curve to the right, radius, 367.6 feet, through an arc of thirty-eight degrees and three minutes, chord length 245 feet, to a point; thence south twenty-six degrees and twenty-five minutes east 900 feet to a point on the Somerset and Cambria Railroad embankment; thence south twenty-five degrees and thirty-seven minutes east 445 feet to a point on the same embankment; thence by a curve to the right, radius, 1,235 feet through an arc of thirty-six degrees and forty-five minutes, length, 792.8 feet, to a point; thence south eleven degrees and eight minutes west 500 feet to the lower river face corner of the easterly abutment of the Poplar Street Bridge.
The left-side boundary line shall be distant 225 feet at the bottom of the river from the right-side boundary line and parallel thereto.
The slope outward of the bank or margin of the stream from the bottom line on each side shall be one and one-half feet for each foot of rise. However, when river retaining walls are built, either by the City or by property owners, to protect the land and to form the bank, the same may be built with a batter of not less than one-half inch to the foot. Such walls shall be built under the direction of the City Engineer.
A map or plan of the Stonycreek River as herein bounded and described remains in the office of the City Engineer and a copy of the same is filed with the City Clerk.
(Sp. Ord. 247. Passed 2-20-1894.)