New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter III - Public Water Supplies › Subchapter A - Municipalities, Districts, Companies, Institutions › Part 153 - Washington County › Villages › Section 153.1 - Village of fort edward

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Privies
					 adjacent to reservoirs, springs or watercourses.
(1) No privy or place for the deposit or
					 storage of human excreta shall be constructed, located or maintained within 50
					 feet, horizontal measurement, of the high-water mark or [continued] precipitous
					 bank of any reservoir, spring, stream, ditch or watercourse of any kind, the
					 water of which, when running, flows eventually into a reservoir of the Fort
					 Edward public water supply.
(2) No
					 privy vault, pit or cesspool or nontransportable receptacle of any kind for the
					 reception or storage of human excreta shall be constructed, located or
					 maintained within 250 feet, horizontal measurement, of the high-water mark or
					 precipitous bank of any reservoir or within 130 feet, horizontal measurement,
					 of the high-water mark or precipitous bank of any spring, stream, ditch or
					 watercourse as aforesaid.
(3) Every
					 privy or place for the deposit of human excrement which is constructed, located
					 or maintained between the aforesaid limits of 50 and 250 feet, horizontal
					 measurement, of the high-water mark or precipitous bank of any reservoir or 50
					 and 130 feet, horizontal measurement, of the high-water mark or precipitous
					 bank of any spring, stream, ditch or watercourse as aforesaid and from which
					 the said excrement is not at once removed automatically by means of suitable
					 watertight pipes or conduits to some proper place of disposal beyond the
					 maximum aforesaid limit shall be arranged in such manner that all said excreta
					 shall be received and temporarily retained in suitable vessels or receptacles,
					 which shall at all times be maintained in an absolutely watertight condition
					 and which will admit of convenient removal to some place of ultimate disposal
					 beyond the said maximum limit.
(4)
					 The excreta collected in the aforesaid removable receptacles shall be removed
					 and the receptacles cleansed and deodorized as often as is necessary to keep
					 the receptacles in proper sanitary condition and to prevent an overflow of the
					 excreta upon the soil or the floor of said privy.
(5) The excreta so collected shall be removed
					 so as to cause the least nuisance possible and shall be so disposed of that
					 they cannot be washed either over the surface or through the subsoil into any
					 reservoir, spring, stream, ditch or watercourse of any kind as aforesaid and
					 shall be so placed as not to cause an offensive nuisance.
(6) Whenever it shall be found that, owing to
					 the porous character of the soil, the height and flow of surface and subsoil
					 waters, the steepness of the slopes or other special conditions of the
					 locality, the excremental matter from any privy, cesspool or other receptacle
					 for human excreta may be washed over the surface or through the subsoil into a
					 reservoir or any spring, stream, ditch or watercourse aforesaid without having
					 been thereby, in the judgment of the State Board of Health, sufficiently
					 purified, then the said privy, cesspool or other receptacle for human excreta
					 shall, after due notice to the owner thereof, be removed to such greater
					 distance from said high-water marks as shall be considered safe and proper by
					 the State Board of Health.