The datum plane of the City is hereby fixed and declared to be the datum plane at Sandy Hook of the United States, as fixed by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. Such datum plane is hereby adopted as that of the City. The elevations established in the City at the present time shall have added thereto a constant increment of 7.1 feet so as to bring such elevations to the Sandy Hook datum plane.
[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Chester as Sec. 103.02 of the 1978 Codified Ordinances. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The City Engineer is hereby authorized and directed to mark on the official plan of the City elevations to agree and be in accordance with the datum plane of the City.
The controlling elevation in the City shall be a brass bolt in the stone door step on the north side of the old City Hall, immediately next to the building line on the west side of Market Street, between Fourth Street and Fifth Street, in the City, the elevation of which is 32.103 feet datum plane, Sandy Hook.