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BY AUTHORITY 
Ordinance No. 102. 
Series 1909 
Supervisor’s Bill No. 32, 
Introduced by Sup. Robertson 
A BILL FOR 
AN ORDINANCE TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE THE 
PURITY OF THE WATER SUPPLY OF THE CITY AND 
COUNTY OF DENVER, AND PROVIDING FOR THE 
PATROL OF THE SOUTH PLATTE RIVER AND BEAR 
CREEK AND ANY OE THEIR TRIBUTARIES FROM THE 
FIFTEENTH STREET BRIDGE OVER SAID RIVER IN 
THE CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER TO THE HEAD¬ 
WATERS OF SAID STREAMS AND FOR THE ARREST 
AND PUNISHMENT OF ALL PERSONS VIOLATING THE 
PROVISIONS OF THIS ORDINANCE. 
Be it Enacted by the Council of the City and County of 
Denver: 
Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit into 
the channel of the South Platte river or Bear creek, or any of 
their tributaries above the Fifteenth street bridge over said river 
in the City and County of Denver or between or upon the banks of 
said streams, any unwholesome matter or substance whatever 
tending to the defilement or pollution of the water of said streams, 
or to allow the drainage from any sewer, drain or cesspool to drain 
into or percolate into said streams, or their tributaries, or any of 
them, or to permit any dead animal or decaying vegetable matter 
to be placed or left within a distance of three hundred (300) feet 
of the banks of any said streams, or their tributaries, or to do any 
other act or thing whereby the water of said streams might become 
polluted or unfit or unwholesome for human consumption; Pro¬ 
vided, That the disturbances of water by placer mining or tailings 
from ore reduction mills flowing into any of said streams or tribu¬ 
taries shall not be construed as defilement or pollution of the 
water thereof. 
Section 2. The Health Department of the City and County of 
Denver shall appoint one or more special officer or officers as 
shall be determined by the Health Department and the Mayor, to 
be approved by the Mayor, to patrol the South Platte river and 
Bear creek and their tributaries from the Fifteenth street bridge 
over said South Platte river in the City and County of Denver to 
the headwaters of said South Platte river and Bear creek and 
their tributaries, to enforce the provisions of Section one of this 
