Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1958-04-03

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GEAUGA COUNTY GENERAL
HEALTH DISTRICT
SANITARY REGULATIONS
Orders and regulations govern
ing the installation and opera
tion of water supplies, privieS,
privy vaults, chemical privy
tanks, sewerage and sewage dis
posal equipment, miscellaneous
sanitation requirements, not 9th
erwise controlled by the laws of
Ohio or the regulations of the
Ohio Department of Health.
Be it ordered by the Board of
Health, of the Geauga County,
Ohio General Health District:
WATER SUPPLIES
For the purpose of defraying
the expenses of the inspection
of the we'll and the treating
of the water from the well, a
fee of two dollars $4,000 shall
be charged and collected from
the person, firm or corporation
making application for subject
permit.
A fee of $500 will be charged
for any later inspection of the
we'll and the collection of a
sample of water for bacteriolog-
iCal analysis.
SECTION 2. LOCATION OF
WELLS. A vel used as a
! source of water supply for
drinking and culinary purposes
shall be located not less than
fifty $50 feet from all possible
sources of contamination. BY
possible sources Of contamina-
ton is meant: teaching privieS
non-Watertight sanitary sewers,
sewage iseepage pits or leach
ing wells, sewage pits or leach,
ing wells, sewage teaching OF
filtering devices, barnyardS and
similar things or places. Under
topographic, ground water and
SubSoil conditions considered tC
be unfavorable by the board Of
health a distance greater thar
fifty (50) feet between a vel
and possible sources of contain
ination may be required.
SECTION 3. DEVELOPMENT
OF WATER SUPPLIES. All wa
ter supplies used by the public
for drinking and culinary pur
poses shall be installed and de
Veloped in a manner SatiSfac
tory to the board of health.
SECTION A. ORDERS TO I'M
PROVE WATER SUPPLIES
A water supply used for drink
ing and culinary purposes which
is found to be impure or sub
ject to contamination by reaSol
of unsatisfactory location, pro
lection, or construction, ant
dangerous to the public health
: is hereby declared to be a nuis
ance and the board Of healtl
shall order the owner of sucl
water supply to abandon it AM
/ make it unavailable for use, o
to make improvements, correc
= tions, and changes so as to pro
vide a water supply not Subjec
: to contamination; and the tim.
\ for compliance with such orde
= shall be fixed.
SECTION 5. ABANDONED WA
TER SUPPLIES. When a vel
r spring, or other source of waite
n supply is abandoned because c
it's impurity Or in accordanc
with an order Of the board {
health, it shall be sealed in az
5 cordance with the requirement
- of the state department of ma
ural resources or otherWiS
+ made unavailable as a Sourc
Il of water supply in a manne
n satisfactory 10 the board
k health.
J. SECTION 6. PERMITS FO.
d PRIVIES AND PRIVY VAULT
.e No person shall install {
i change a privy vault or priv
4 or a chemical privy tank unit
the location and constructiC
If plans therefor have been a.
N proved by the board of healt
and written permit has bee
issued by said board.
10 Before issuing a permit, Il
r board of health shall inSpe
;, the premises on which the priv
4 privy vault or chemical priv
tank is to be installed, or chan
az az ed and shall satisfy itself tn
90 the provisions of these regul
., tionS with respect to such
III Stallations or changes can al
% will be carried out.
& For the purpose of defrayil
p the expenses of the inSpecti
provided for in this section.
II fee of three dollars (3.00) Sh;
Al be charged and collected fro
the person, firm or corporate
- making application for subje
10 permit.
r SECTION 7 SPECIFICATION
H FOR PRIVIES AND PRIV
VAULTS, The construction of
on privy and privy vault shall
IL as follows: The privy shall
n provided with a watertight val
III or other Watertight receptac
er- which shall be of not less TIL
ed five hundred $500 gallons ca
of acity. No privy or privy val
H shall be located less than fiji