§ 20-44. Created; boundaries.  


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  • In accordance with the provisions of the law in such case made and provided, a gravity drainage district is hereby created within the Parish of Ouachita, State of Louisiana, to comprise and embrace all that territory within the following described boundaries, to-wit:

    Beginning at a point on the west bank of the Ouachita River in Section thirty-nine (39), Township eighteen (18) north, Range three (3) east, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana; said point being located where the center line of the Arkansas Road extended in an easterly direction intersects the west top bank of the Ouachita River; thence north 76 degrees 1′ west a distance of 147.0 feet; thence north 32 degrees 6′ west a distance of 2125.3 feet; thence south 61 degrees 32′ west a distance of 2240 feet; more or less to the intersection of Arkansas Road and the center line of the Victory Gravel Company's railroad right-of-way; thence south along the center line of said right-of-way to its intersection with the Monroe-Ruston Federal Aid Highway No. 80; thence along said Federal Aid Highway No. 80 a distance of 6,000 feet, more or less, to the center of Section twenty-eight (28), Township eighteen (18) north, Range three (3) East; thence south along the eastern boundary of the southwest quarter of Section twenty-eight (28) and the west half of Section thirty-three (33) to the southeast corner of the west half of Section thirty-three (33), Township eighteen (18) north, range three (3) east; thence south along the eastern boundary of the west half of Section four (4) Township seventeen (17) north, range three (3) east, to the southeast corner of the west half of said Section 4; thence south along the eastern boundary of the northeast quarter of Section nine (9), Township seventeen (17) north, range three (3) east, to the southeast corner of said quarter section; thence south along the eastern boundary of the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter Section Nine (9) a distance of 77.1 feet to the center line of the proposed West Monroe south levee; thence south eight-three (83) degrees 6′ along east center line of proposed levee a distance of 3901.7 feet to the center line of Louisiana State Highway No. 200; thence north and northeast along said Highway No. 200 to its intersection with the west high bank of Black Bayou; thence, meandering along the west bank of Black Bayou, and in a southeasterly direction to a point on the west line of the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section three (3), Township seventeen (17) north, range three (3) east; thence, south and along the west line of the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of Section Three (3), Township seventeen (17) North, range three (3) east; and south along the west line of the southeast quarter of section three (3), Township seventeen (17) north, range three (3) east; to the north line of Section ten (10) Township seventeen (17) north, range three (3) east; thence south along the eastern boundary of the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of Section ten (10), Township seventeen (17) north, range three (3) east to the southeast corner of the said quarter section; thence south along the eastern boundary of the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section ten (10) a distance of 29.9 feet to the center line of the proposed West Monroe Levee south; thence north 50 degrees 22′ east a distance of 1658.6 feet; thence north 57 degrees 5′ east a distance of 743.83 feet; thence north 33 degrees 9′ east a distance of 680.74 feet; thence north 53 degrees 59′ east a distance of 619.84 feet; thence north 19 degrees 9′ east a distance of 813.04 feet; thence north 52 degrees 54′ east a distance of 1004.03 feet; thence north 42 degrees 55′ east a distance of 1085.94 feet; thence south 80 degrees 53′ east a distance of 2184.23 feet; thence south 49 degrees 11′ east a distance of 559.61 feet; thence south 75 degrees 33′ east a distance of 2340 feet, more or less, to the west bank of the Ouachita River; thence northerly along the west bank of the Ouachita River to the point of the beginning.

(Ord. No. 2032, § 1, 9-14-32; Ord. No. 2035, 10-13-32)