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ORDINANCE NO. 20
(Series of 1966)
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AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING POLLUTION OR CONTAMINATION OF THE WATER SUPPLY
OF THE CITY OF ASPEN, COLORADO
BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Aspen, Colorado:
Section 1: (A) It shall be unlawful for any person to place,
dump, throw, discharge or deposit any substance or material which will,
in any manner, pollute or contaminate the waters of Maroon Creek or CastlD
Creek or Hunter Creek, or their tributaries for a distance of five (5)
miles around or above the intake points of the water utility of the City~
of Aspen, or to have, keep or maintain, at, along or near the banks of
Maroon Creek or Castle Creek or Hunter Creek, for a distance of five (5)
miles around or above the intake points of the water utility, any building,
privy, pen, yard, corral for stock, or to have, keep or conduct any busines~
near such creek as aforesaid which will contaminate or pollute the waters
of said creeks or render the same unfit for domestic use.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person to throw
or discharge into any waterworks of the City of Aspen, Colorado, including
all reservoirs, streams, ditches, inlets, pipes, drains, filters, sedi-
mentation basins or other equipment or appliance used in the construction,
maintenance and operation of same, any obnoxious substance which is sub-
ject to decay in or pollutes the water.
(C) It shall be unlawful for any person to allow
any livestock, or any animals of any kind, to graze within 100 yards of
any open waterworks of the City of Aspen, including all reservoirs, or
collection points of water for distribution, streams, trenches, inlets,
pipes or drains.
Section 2: Because of the matters and things hereinabove set
forth, the city Council of the City of Aspen, colorado, hereby finds,
determines and declares that an emergency exists, and that this ordinance
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is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health
and safety.
INTRODUCED,
oF
READ, AND ORDEP. ED PUBLISHED THIS
,,,, 1966
/~_ DAY
Mayor
ATTEST:
FINALLY ADOPTED AND APPROVED THIS
DAY OF
Mayor
ATTEST:
~-~ty Clerk '
STATE OF COLORADO )
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COUNTY OF PITKIN )
CERTIFICATE
I, Lorraine Graves, City Clerk of Aspen, Colorado,
do hereby certify that the above and foregoing ordinance was
introducted, read in full, and passed on first
reading at a regular meeting of the City Council of the
City of Aspen on ~uly %8 ,1965.., and publish-
ed in the ~spen Times a weekly newspaper of general circul-
ation, published in the City of Aspen, Colorado, in its
issue of July 21 ,1966, and was finally adopted
and approved at a regular meeting of the City Council on
August ~
Ordinance No.
provided by law.
,196 6 , and ordered published as
, Series 196 ~ , of said City, as
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and
the seal of said City of Aspen, Colorado, this 2nd
~.a~y of ....... ~, 196 6
Lorraine Graves, City Clerk