2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 11 - Public Water Supplies; Sewerage and Sewage Control › Title 3 - Annual Water Supply Statement › 1152 - Annual Water Supply Statement; Delivery.

§  1152.  Annual water supply statement; delivery. 1. Each water works
corporation shall provide a water  supply  statement  to  its  customers
annually.  The  annual  water supply statement shall either be mailed to
each customer  or  published  in  at  least  one  newspaper  of  general
circulation  in  the  area served by the water works corporation. If the
statement is to be published in a newspaper, the water works corporation
shall provide ample notification by announcing the publication date  and
newspaper name either on the customers bill or in the newspaper in which
the  statement shall appear. A limited number of additional copies, in a
quantity to be determined by  the  water  works  corporation,  shall  be
provided  to  customers upon request. In addition, the statement must be
posted on the water works corporation's website, if such exists,  or  be
made  available to the municipality or municipalities in which the water
works corporation services to be posted on such municipalities' website,
if such exists.
2. Each water works corporation shall also provide one  copy  of  each
annual  water  supply  statement  to  the  commissioner  and  the  state
commissioner of environmental conservation.
3. The annual water supply statement shall be mailed or published, and
posted online on or before the thirty-first day of May of each year  and
shall  apply  to data received by the water works corporation during the
preceding calendar year.
4. The information required by  subdivision  four  of  section  eleven
hundred  fifty-one  of this title for each source of water may be placed
in a supplement to the annual water supply statement instead of  in  the
main body of the statement; provided that:
(1)  the  statement  provides  such  information  for a representative
sampling of distribution point samples and a notice to the  effect  that
such  information  for  each source of water is included in a supplement
available  to  each  customer  upon  request  from   the   water   works
corporation; and
(2)  the  supplement  is  included  in  each  copy of the water supply
statement provided to customers upon request under  subdivision  one  of
this section and provided to commissioners under subdivision two of this
section; and
(3) the supplement shall be
(i)  published  in  a  notice  at  least one-half page in size, in one
newspaper of general circulation within the water district; or
(ii) made available on a public electronic bulletin board, along  with
the  supplements  from  the  two  prior years, if such prior supplements
exist, and notice of the availability of such information  on  a  public
electronic  bulletin  board  shall  be  clearly provided on each billing
statement and shall be published in a newspaper of  general  circulation
within the water district; or
(iii)  made  available  at  all  New  York state documents information
access  centers,  documents  reference  centers,  documents   depository
libraries  and  documents research depository libraries within the water
district and if no such libraries exist within the water district, at  a
public library within the water district, and notice of the availability
of the supplement at such library of libraries shall be clearly provided
on  each  billing  statement  and  shall  be published in a newspaper of
general circulation within the water district.
Such supplement need not be included in the copy  of  the  annual  water
supply  statement mailed to each customer or published under subdivision
one of this section.