Resolution 00868RESOLUTION NO. 868.
AUTHORIZING THE DREDGING OF A STRIP OF LAND FRCU GOVERNMENT
ISLAND, AND PROVIDING FDR A DYKE AND DUMPING GROUNDS.
WHERES, purauant to a report of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and
Harbors, the United States proposes to dredge away from the southern side of Govern-
ment Island (so-called) in the San Antonio Estuary, a strip of land approximately
150 feet in width by 2300 feet in length, for the purpose of widening the channel
on the muthern side of said island to a width of 720 feet from and parallel with
the existing pierhead line on the Alameda shore, and
WHEREAS, the execution of said work is contingent upon a condition that
local interests will construct and maintain a dyke across the north channel in
Brooklyn Basin and provide free of cost to the United States the necessary right
of way therefor, and suitable dumping grounds for dredged material removed during
said work and maintenance, and
WHEREAS, on account of the uncertain location of the boundary line between
the cities of Oakland and Alameda it is advisable that both cities cooperate jointly
in complying with the requirements of the United States, to the extent of their re-
spective interests, as nearly as they may be aecertained, and
WHEREAS, the City of Alameda and its inhabitants, represented by the oouncil
of said city, desire to cooperate in every possible way in the speedy execution of said
work and making said improvement, now therefore, it is hereby
RESOLVED, by the Counoil of the City of Alameda, that said city pay its
share of the cost of constructing and maintaining such a dyke across the north channel
in Brooklyn Basin as the United States authorities may require; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the United States be and it is hereby granted a right of way
for widening the channel on the southern side of said Government Island, as is more
particularly specified and described in the first paragraph of the preamble hereof;
and be it further
RESOLVED, that the United States be and it is hereby granted the right to
use said Government Island as a suitable dumping ground for dredged material removed
during said work end maintenance, to the extent that the elevation of said island may
be raised to the height of fourteen (14) feet above mean lower low water after settling.
RESOLVED, that a copy of these resolutions be sent to the Board of Engineers
for Rivers and Harbors.
I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was duly
and regularly introduced and adopted by the Council of the City of Alameda in regular
meeting assembled on the 3rd day of March, 1925, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen Latham, Neiss, Probst and Council-president Otis, (4).
NOES: None,
ABSENT: Councilman Tilden, (1).
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official
seal of said city this 4th day of March, 1925.
W. E. VARCOE,
City Clerk of the City of Alameda.
(Seal of the City af Uameda).
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of
"Resolution No. 868. Authorizing the Dredging of a strip of land from Government
Island, and iroviding for a Dyke and Dumping Grounds," passed by the Council of the
City of Alameda in regular meeting assembled on the 3rd day of March, 1925.
City Clerk of the City of Alameda.