Res 106COPY COPY
A PETITION TO THE UNTIED STATES GOVERN~T
Attention: Mr. Lynn, District Engineer,
U. S. Engineer's Office, Comeau Building,
We st Palm Beach, Florida. ,,
WHEREAS, The United States Government is now deepening
and widening the Intracoastal Waterway Canal;
AN~ WHEREAS, FURTHER, It is ascertained that Laid
Canal will be pencilled from a width ef one hundred *,hirty-five
feet (1S~ ft.) tea width of simty feet (60 ft.) at the bridge
within the City of I~elray Beach, Florida;
AND WH~EAS, It is felt by ,~e officials of ,~e City of
I)elray Beach that said pencilling is likely to cause congestion
of traffic within several hu~dred feet of the approaches to the
bridge orossing, and that said pencilling would not only congest
the traffic ~ut would be hazardous to the tying up, loading er
unloading of vessels, or the free pasmage of traffic within the
pencilling;
In an effort to relieve this possible congestion and
to facitita%e uninterrupted traffic and to avoid the possibility
of collisions in the Waterway at this point, the City of Delray
Beach hereby indicates i*,s willingness and desire *,o donm~e a
strip of land on ,~ae North side of ,~he bridge on the West side
of the Canal bank forty feet (40 ft. ~ by ~four hundred feet
(400 ft.) for the purpose of widening +~ae canal at this point to
a uniform depth with the Intracoa~tal Waterway Canal, LO that
boats tied up along the Canal would not be in the way of traffic
on the Waterway.
FURTHER, said municipality ag:ecs to place and maintain
sufficient and a&eQuate bulkheading for said offset t~ prevent
any caving in or sluifing off of the ban~s of said offset.
WHEREAS, it is believed that inasmuch as the widening
and deepenin6 of the Canal at this point will seen be in progress
a~d ~hat now is the logical time for this widening to be done;
WHEREUPON, the ~ayor and the City Council of the City
of Delray Beach do hereby respectfully submit the e~ers aoove
and petition *,he United States Governmen+, to widen +%he Canal at
this point to a uniform depth with +~he In*,racoas+,al Waterway
Canal,so that boa+,s tied up along the Canal would no*, ~e in +,he
way of traffic on the Waterway, believing that the widening ef
the Canal at this pein+, will be extremely adwantageous, beth te
the users of +,he Intracoastal Wa+~erway Canal and to the munici-
pality.
BE IT RESOLVED By the Mayor and City Council of the
City of Delray Bea(~h +,hat ~aid tender and foregoing preposition
~e offered and submitted +,o the United States Government and
that a copy or copies hereof be mailed to the ~rop~r officials
in charge of +,he construction of the Intracoastal Waterway Canal.
PASSED and Approved by the Mayor and City Council of
the City of Delray Beach, Fl~rida,. on +%his +~he ,~/ day
of Decemoer, A. D. 19~$.
At t e s t ed: Pre~
Clork ~g~t~he C i,~ y-o f
Delray Beach, Fleri~a.
UNITED STATES ENGINEER OFFICE
?~¢ come~ ~u~ding,
P. O. So~ 240.5,
West Palm Beach, Fla.
December 8, 1933.
City of Delr~y Beach,
Dslr~y Beach, Fla.
Attentionl Mr. LeRoy Digg~ns,
~s ident of Council.
De~ ~
Re=eipt of petitio~ fr~ %he ~ity Oouncil of Del~2 ~=ch,
dated Decem~r 4, 1933, ~ hereby ac~owledged.
The origin~ pl~ for d~dg~ the Int~co~t~ W&ter~y
provided for a co~riu~ed ch~el ~%h~ a distance of 500 feet each
side of ~idge structures.
This pl~, hoover, ~ ~en ~doaed, and the at~d~d
bo~%~ width of 100 feet~ with extr~ width to provide~ for 1~3 aide
slopes, will ~ dredged ~ ~loae to the bridge aa practicable.
The west side of the =~nal, al the bo%toa of the i~eore-
tio~ side slope, will coincide with the west a~t~nl of the Delray
~ach bridge. This will pl~ca the de~ end portion of ~ =h~el ~o
ihs e~i of the brae sp~. Th~ e~oenirici%Y ~ the ch~el loca-
tion h~ ~en ~de in ~ effort 'to prevent cutting a~y t~e ~a~ ~k
for re. on ~ready known to you.
It is desired to know ~ t~ plan outlined above ~11 t~e
c~e of the desires of t~ city reg~di~ the i~terests of ~v~ation
at t~t place.
Ass ist~t E~er.