New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter III - Public Water Supplies › Subchapter A - Municipalities, Districts, Companies, Institutions › Part 102 - Broome County › Section 102.3 - Water District No. 4, Town of Kirkwood

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Application. The rules and regulations
				  herein set forth, duly made and enacted in accordance with the provisions of
				  sections 1100-1107 of the Public Health Law, shall apply to the wells which
				  comprise the source of the public water supply of Water District No. 4 of the
				  Town of Kirkwood. Said wells are located on land owned by Water District No. 4
				  of the Town of Kirkwood and are situated and designated as Broome County Tax
				  Map No. 7-1-S1. More particularly, said premises are located on the easterly
				  shore of the Susquehanna River approximately 2,000 feet south of the confluence
				  of Park Creek with said Susquehanna River.
(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 regenerations).
(3) Construction and demolition dump shall
				  mean a site used for the deposit of wastes resulting from construction,
				  remodeling, repair and demolition of structures, road building and land
				  clearing. Such wastes include, but are not limited to bricks, concrete and
				  other masonry materials, soil, rock and lumber, road spoils, paving material
				  and tree and brush stumps.
(4)
				  Fertilizers shall be any commercially produced mixture generally containing
				  phosphorus, nitrogen and potassium which is applied to the ground to increase
				  nutrients to plants.
(5)
				  Groundwater shall be any water beneath the land surface in the saturated zone
				  that is under atmospheric or artesian pressure and that enters wells and
				  springs.
(6) Herbicide shall mean
				  any substance used to destroy or inhibit plant growth.
(7) Human excreta shall mean human feces and
				  urine.
(8) Junkyard shall mean an
				  area utilized for the collection, storage, burning, dumping, disassembling,
				  dismantling, salvaging, sorting or otherwise handling or arranging for sale,
				  resale, storage or disposal or otherwise of bodies, engines, or parts of
				  autos.
(9) 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.
(10) Manure shall mean animal feces and
				  urine.
(11) Nonagricultural
				  associated animal waste shall mean manure obtained from nonagricultural
				  industries.
(12) Pesticide shall
				  mean any substance used to destroy or inhibit pests, such as rodents and
				  insects.
(13) Pollutant shall mean
				  dredge, spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage
				  sludge, cheemical waste, biological materials, heat, wrecked or discarded
				  equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial and municipal waste and
				  agricultural and nonagricultural associated animal waste.
(14) 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.
(15) Radioactive material
				  shall mean any material in any form that emits radiation
				  spontaneously.
(16) Refuse shall
				  mean all putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes, including garbage,
				  manure, rubbish, ashes, incinerator residue, street cleaning, dead animals,
				  offal and solid commercial and industrial wastes.
(17) 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 lessee of said land, or any part of a farm on which only
				  agricultural associated animal wastes resulting from the operation of such farm
				  are deposited.
(18) 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.
(19) Sewage disposal system
				  shall mean any system used for disposing of sewage and includes treatment
				  works.
(20) Sludge shall mean any
				  solid, semi-solid or liquid waste generated from a municipal, commercial, or
				  industrial wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment, or air pollution
				  control facility. Sludge does not include the treated effluent from a
				  wastewater treatment plant.
(21)
				  Toxic substance shall mean any toxic substance as so defined by subdivision two
				  of section 4801  of the Public Health Law.
(22) 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.
(23) Water stabilization pond or lagoon shall
				  mean any body of water used for the collection of waste or sewage.
(24) Water district shall mean Water District
				  No. 4 of the Town of Kirkwood.
(25)
				  Water supply shall mean the public water supply of Water District No. 4 of the
				  Town of Kirkwood.
(26) Wells shall
				  mean any well or wells now used as a source of this water supply or any
				  additional well which may be constructed at this point as a source for this
				  water supply.