New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter III - Public Water Supplies › Subchapter A - Municipalities, Districts, Companies, Institutions › Part 147 - Suffolk County › Companies › Section 147.64 - South bay consolidated water company, inc. at patchogue

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) [Application.] The rules and regulations
					 hereinafter given, duly made and enacted in accordance with the provisions of
					 sections 70, 71 and 73 of chapter 45 of the Consolidated Laws (Public Health
					 Law), as amended by chapter 309 of the Laws of 1926, shall apply to all wells
					 of the public water supply of the South Bay Consolidated Water Company, Inc. at
					 Patchogue, Suffolk County, New York.
(b) [Interpretation.] Wherever a linear
					 distance of a structure or object from a well is mentioned in this section, it
					 is intended to mean the shortest horizontal distance from the nearest point of
					 the structure or object to such well.
(c) Privies adjacent to any well.
(1) No privy, privy vault, pit or receptacle
					 of any kind used for either the temporary storage or the permanent deposit of
					 human excreta shall be constructed, placed, maintained or allowed to remain
					 within 100 feet of any well of the public water supply of the South Bay
					 Consolidated Water Company, Inc. at Patchogue.
(2) No privy, privy vault, pit, cesspool or
					 other receptacle used for the permanent deposit of human excreta shall be
					 constructed, located, placed, maintained or allowed to remain within 200 feet
					 of any well of the public water supply of the South Bay Consolidated Water
					 Company, Inc. at Patchogue.
(3)
					 Every privy, privy vault, pit or other receptacle of any kind, placed or used
					 for the temporary storage of human excreta, located between the limiting
					 distance prescribed by paragraph (1) of this subdivision and the limiting
					 distance prescribed by paragraph (2) of this subdivision, shall be arranged in
					 such a manner that all excreta shall be received in suitable watertight
					 receptacles and shall at all times be deposited as set forth in paragraphs (4)
					 and (5) of this subdivision.
(4)
					 The excreta collected in the aforesaid watertight receptacles shall be removed
					 and the receptacles cleansed and disinfected as often as may be found necessary
					 in order to maintain the privy or receptacle in proper sanitary condition and
					 to effectually prevent any overflow upon the soil or upon the foundations or
					 floor of the privy. In effecting this removal the utmost care shall be
					 exercised that none of the contents be allowed to escape while being
					 transferred from the privy or receptacle to the place of disposal hereinafter
					 specified and that the least possible annoyance and inconvenience be caused to
					 occupants of the premises or of the adjoining premises.
(5) Unless otherwise specially ordered or
					 permitted by the State Commissioner of Health, the excreta collected in the
					 aforesaid receptacles shall be disposed of by burying in trenches or pits at a
					 depth of not less than 12 inches below the surface of the ground and in such a
					 manner as to effectually prevent them being washed over the surface of the
					 ground by rain or melting snow and at a distance not less than 500 feet from
					 any well of the public water supply of the South Bay Consolidated Water
					 Company, Inc. at Patchogue.
(6)
					 Whenever it shall be found that, owing to the character of the soil or of the
					 surface of the ground or to the height or flow of subsoil or surface water or
					 other special local condition, the excremental matter from any privy or
					 aforesaid receptacle or from any trench or place of disposal may, in the
					 opinion of the State Commissioner of Health, be washed over the surface or
					 through the soil into any well of the public water supply of the South Bay
					 Consolidated Water Company, Inc. at Patchogue, then the said privy or
					 receptacle for excreta or the trench or place of disposal shall, after due
					 notice to the owner thereof, be removed to such greater distance or to such
					 place as shall be considered safe and proper by the State Commissioner of
					 Health.