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 › Districts › Section 147.2 - South huntington water district, town of huntington

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 510 of the Laws of 1921, shall apply to all wells
					 of the public water supply of the South Huntington Water District, town of
					 Huntington, Suffolk County, New York.
(b) [Definitions.] 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 50 feet of any well of the public water supply of the South Huntington
					 Water District.
(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
					 Huntington Water District.
(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 removed and disposed of as set forth in
					 paragraphs (4) and (5) of this subdivision.
(4) The excreta collected in the aforesaid
					 removable receptacles shall be removed and the receptacles cleaned and
					 disinfected as often as may be found necessary in order to maintain the privy
					 in proper sanitary condition and to effectually prevent any overflow upon the
					 soil or upon the foundation 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 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, when removed, 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 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 Huntington Water
					 District.
(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 in an
					 imperfectly purified condition into any well of the public water supply of the
					 South Huntington Water District, 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.