New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter III - Public Water Supplies › Subchapter A - Municipalities, Districts, Companies, Institutions › Part 133 - Orange County › Villages › Section 133.12 - Village of port jervis

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Privies
					 adjacent to any reservoir or watercourse.
(1)
					 No privy or place for the deposit or storage of human excreta shall be
					 constructed, located or maintained within 50 feet, horizontal measurement, from
					 the high-water mark or precipitous bank of any reservoir, pond, spring, stream,
					 ditch or watercourse of any kind, the water in which, when running, flows
					 eventually into a reservoir of the public water supply of the Village of Port
					 Jervis.
(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, from the high-water mark or precipitous bank of
					 any pond or reservoir or within 130 feet, horizontal measurement, from the
					 high-water mark or precipitous bank of any spring, stream, ditch or watercourse
					 as aforesaid.
(3) Every privy or
					 place for the deposit, reception or storage of human excreta which is
					 constructed, located or maintained between the aforesaid limits of 50 and 250
					 feet, horizontal measurement, from the high-water mark or precipitous bank of
					 any pond or reservoir or -between the aforesaid limits of 50 and 130 feet,
					 horizontal measurement, from the high-water mark or precipitous bank of any
					 spring, stream, ditch or watercourse as aforesaid, and from which privy or
					 place the said excreta 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 upon the
					 foundation or floor of said privy. In effecting this removal, the utmost care
					 shall be exercised that none of the contents of the receptacles be allowed to
					 escape while being transported from the privy to the place of ultimate disposal
					 hereinafter specified and that the least possible annoyance or inconvenience be
					 caused to occupants of the premises or of adjoining premises.
(5) Unless otherwise specifically ordered or
					 permitted in writing by the board of health of the Village of Port Jervis, the
					 excreta collected in the aforesaid receptacles shall, when removed, be disposed
					 of by burying in trenches or by thoroughly digging into the soil at such places
					 and in such manner as to effectually prevent their being washed over the
					 surface of the ground by rain or melted snow and at distances not less than 500
					 feet, horizontal measurement, from the high-water mark of any pond or reservoir
					 and not less than 300 feet horizontal measurement, from the high-water mark or
					 precipitous bank of any spring, stream, ditch or watercourse of any kind, the
					 water of which, when running, flows into a reservoir of the public water supply
					 of the Village of Port Jervis.
(6)
					 Whenever it shall be found that, owing to the character of the soil or of the
					 surface of the ground, 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 or from any
					 trench or place of disposal may be washed over the surface or through the
					 subsoil into a pond or 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.