New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter III - Public Water Supplies › Subchapter A - Municipalities, Districts, Companies, Institutions › Part 136 - Otsego County › Villages › Section 136.8 - Village of otego

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a)
					 Application. The rules and regulations set forth in this section, duly made and
					 adopted in accordance with the provisions of sections 110-1107 of the Public
					 Health Law shall apply to the wells which comprise the source of the public
					 water supply of the Village of Otego. Said wells are located on land owned by
					 the Village of Otego and are situated approximately one mile north of the
					 village along Otsdawa Road in the west end of the village south of Meadow
					 Street between the Susquehanna River and the Delaware and Hudson railroad
					 tracks.
(b) Definitions.
(1) Agricultural-associated animal waste
					 shall mean manure obtained from agricultural industries.
(2) Chloride salt shall mean the solid
					 compounds or solutions of potassium chloride (commonly used as fertilizer),
					 calcium chloride (commonly used for winter road maintenance) or sodium chloride
					 (commonly used for water-softener regeneration).
(3) Herbicide shall mean any substance used
					 to destroy or inhibit plant growth.
(4) Human excreta shall mean human feces and
					 urine.
(5) Junkyard shall mean an
					 area where two or more unregistered, old or secondhand motor vehicles are being
					 accumulated for purposes of disposal, resale of used parts or reclaiming
					 certain materials such as metal, glass, fabric, and/or the like.
(6) Linear distance shall mean the shortest
					 horizontal distance from the nearest point of the structure or object to the
					 extension of the centerline of the wells.
(7) Manure shall mean animal feces and
					 urine.
(8)
					 Nonagricultural-associated animal waste shall mean manure obtained from
					 nonagricultural industries.
(9)
					 Pesticide shall mean any substance used to destroy or inhibit pests such as
					 rodents and insects.
(10) Pollutant
					 shall mean dredge, spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage,
					 sewage sludge, chemical waste, biological materials, radioactive materials,
					 heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial
					 and municipal and agricultural- and nonagricultural-associated animal
					 wastes.
(11) Radiation shall mean
					 ionizing radiation; that is, any alpha particle, beta particle, gamma ray,
					 X-ray, neutron, high-speed proton, and any other atomic particle producing
					 ionization, but shall not mean any sound or radio wave, or visible, infrared,
					 or ultraviolet light.
(12)
					 Radioactive material shall mean any material in any form that emits radiation
					 spontaneously.
(13) Refuse shall
					 mean all putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes including garbage, manure,
					 rubbish, ashes, incinerator residue, street cleanings, dead animals, offal and
					 solid commercial and industrial wastes.
(14) Refuse disposal area shall mean land
					 used for the depositing of refuse except that it shall not include the land
					 used for the depositing of refuse from a single family, a member of which is
					 the owner, occupant or leasee of said land, or any part of a farm on which only
					 animal wastes resulting from the operation of such farm are
					 deposited.
(15) Sewage shall mean
					 any liquid or solid waste matter from a domestic, commercial, private or
					 industrial establishment which is normally carried off in sewers or waste
					 pipes.
(16) Sewage disposal system
					 shall mean any system used for disposing sewage.
(17) Toxic substance shall mean any toxic
					 substance as so defined by subdivision 2 of section 4801  of the Public Health Law.
(18) Treatment works shall mean any treatment
					 plant, sewer, disposal field, lagoon, pumping station, septic system,
					 construction drainage ditch or surface water intercepting ditch, incinerator,
					 area devoted to sanitary landfill, or other works not specifically mentioned in
					 this paragraph, installed for the purpose of treating, neutralizing,
					 stabilizing or disposing of sewage.
(18) Water supply shall mean the public water
					 supply of the Village of Otego.
(20) Wells shall mean wells now used as a
					 source of this water supply or any additional wells which may be constructed at
					 this point as a source for this water supply.