The Stonycreek River from the Valley Pike Bridge at Central Avenue connecting the Eighth and Seventeenth Wards, southward to the City line within the City, 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 of the channel shall be as follows:
The boundary line of the right bank shall begin at a point sixty-five feet northward from the center of the river face of the south abutment of the bridge; thence up the river south eighty-seven degrees and thirty-three minutes west ninety-one feet to a point; thence by a curve to the right, radius 1,210.82 feet, through an arc of twenty-five degrees and twenty minutes, chord length 531 feet, to a point; thence by a curve to the left, radius, 1,679 feet, through an arc of seven degrees and eight minutes, chord length 209 feet, to a point; thence by a curve to the left, radius, 390.4 feet, through an arc of sixty-one degrees and thirty-eight minutes, chord length 400 feet, to a point; thence south forty-four degrees and seven minutes west 410.65 feet to a point; thence by a curve to the left, radius, 1,227.6 feet through an arc of twenty-three degrees and twenty minutes, chord length 496.44 feet, to a point; thence south twenty degrees and forty-seven minutes west 1,653.5 feet to a point; thence by a curve to the left, radius, 495.63 feet, through an arc of forty-eight degrees and fifty minutes, chord length 409.74 feet, to a point; thence passing in front of the east abutment of the bridge on the Valley Pike, known as the Ferndale Bridge, by a curve to the left, radius, 5,991.9 feet through an arc of six degrees and twenty-four minutes, chord length 668.95 feet, to the City line.
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. 251. Passed 3-27-1894.)