The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-06-29
LEGAL NOTICES
UNION COUNTY

UNION COUNTY
GENERAL HEALTH DISTRICT
SANITARY REGULATIONS
ORDERS AND REGULATIONS
GOVERNING THE INSTALLATION
AND OPERATION OF
WATER SUPPLIES, PRINlES,
PRIVY VAULTS, CHEMICAL
PRIVY TANKS, SEWERAGE AND
SEWAGE DISPOSAL EQUIPMENT,
MISCELLANEOUS sANITATION
REQUIREMENTS, Nor
OTHERWISE CONTROLLED by
THE LAWS OF OHIO OR THE
REGULATIONS OF THE OHIO
DEPARTMENT. OF HEALTH
BE ii ordered by the board of
health of the Union County, Ohio,
General Health District:
WATER SUPPLIES
Section 1. LOCATION OF WELLS.
A we'll should be located the maxi
mum distance possible from con-
Eliminating Influences and should in
any instance be located not less
than thirty 800 feet from a water
tight sewage tank or privy vault
and one hundred G00) feet from any
type Of sewage teaching device,
teaching vault privy, sewage filter,
or other concentrating surround
ings.
Section 2. DEVELOPMENT OF
w y 1 IN EDAtA J mo al N"N'A FuP
plies should he Installed and de-
veloped in accordance with or equal
TO the recommendations of the
Ohio Department Of Health as set
forth in the bulletin Water Sup
ply and Sewage Disposal for Rural
Dwellings" published IN l917 aud the
recommendation of the ohio Water
Resources Board as SET forth in the
bulletin ohio Water Well Construc-
ton Code" published in 1916.
Section z. ORDERS TO IMPROVE
WATER SUPPLIES. A water supply
for drinking and general domestic
purposes which is found 10y the
health commissioner to be impure
or subject to contamination by
eason of unsatisfactory location,
protection or construction u dan
gerous TO the public health, is
hereby declared TO be a nuisance
and the health commissioned shall
order the owner OF such water
supply TO abandon IL and make it
unavailable for use or to make Inn
proVements, corrections and changes
so as 10 provide a water supply not
subject to contamination, ana he
shall fix the time for compliance
with such order.
Section 4. ABANDONED WATER
SUPPLIES. When a well, spring or
other source of water supply is
abandoned on account of its inn
purity Ut IN accordance Win III
de of the health commissioner, Ii
shall be sealed in accordance with
the requirements of the ohio Water
Resources Board or otherwise made
unavailable as a source of water
supply in a amer satisfactory to
the health commissioner.
PRIVIES, PRIVY VAULTS AND
CHEMICAL PRIVY TANKS
Section .. PERMlTS FOR PRIV
les AND PRIVY VAULTS. No per-
son shall install or change a priVy
or privy vault or a chemical priyy
tank until the location IN construc-
ito plans therefor have been APP
proved by the health commissioner
and a written permit has been is
sued by the health commissioner.
: Section 6. SPECIFICATIONS FOR
iPRIVIES AND PRIVY VAULTS. The
construction of a privy and privy
vault shall be as follows: The priyy
shall be provided with a water-tight
vault or other Water-tlght receptacle
which should be of not less h
five hundred 5000 gallons capacity,
provided, however, that the vault
may be constructed with an open
or porus bottom to permit teaching
away of the liquid contents, If the
vault is located rot les than one
hundred C100) feet from any private
or semi-public water supply, not less
than three hundred t300) feet from
n municipal water supply and at
a location such that the liquids
teaching from the vault will not
discharge at the ground surface or
into a sink hole, crevice or other
opening extending into limestone,
sandstone or other rock or shale
formation. No priVy or priVy vault
should be located less than thirty
800 feet from a building Of human
occupancy or street line or less than
two 90 feet from any lot or alley
line. The construction of the vault
superstructure shall be such as to
prevent access to the vault of flies,
insects, rats, chickens and other
fowls and animals. The design of
the privy and privy vault shall be
in accordance with or equal to the
recommendations of the Ohio De-
partment of Health as set forth in
the bulletin Water Supply and
Sewage Disposal for Rural Dwell
ings' published i'm 1947.
Section Z. CHEMICAL PRTNY
TANKS. For the purpose of these
regulations a chemical privy tank
shall be construed to be a water
tight receptacle supplied regularly
with a sufficient amount of Caustic
or other chemical substance to
steriliZe and deodoriZe the contents
completely and continuously. This
definition does not include the
chemical commOde or other port
able FeCeptacle. The requirements