The Stonycreek River from the Poplar Street Bridge southward to the Somerset and Cambria Railroad 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 northeasterly corner of the river face of the easterly abutment of the Poplar Street Bridge; thence south twelve degrees and twelve minutes west 410 feet to a point; thence by a curve to the right with a radius of 3,152 feet through an arc of twelve degrees and five minutes, chord length 663.5 feet; thence south twenty-four degrees and thirty-seven minutes west 433.73 feet; thence by a curve to the left, radius, 639.66 feet through an arc of twenty-one degrees and fifteen minutes, chord length 235.85 feet; thence south three degrees and twenty-two minutes west 926.13 feet; thence by a curve to the left, radius, 810.6 feet through an arc of forty-six degrees and eleven minutes, chord length 635.5 feet to the P.C.C. of a curve 12.5 feet southerly from the center of the face of the northerly abutment of the Somerset and Cambria Railroad Bridge.
The left boundary line shall be distant 225 feet at the bottom of the river from the herein established right 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 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 duplicate copy thereof is filed with the City Clerk.
(Sp. Ord. 248. Passed 2-20-1894.)