New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter III - Public Water Supplies › Subchapter A - Municipalities, Districts, Companies, Institutions › Part 123 - Livingston County › Villages › Section 123.5 - Village of Dansville (Surface Supply)

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Application. The rules and regulations
					 set forth in this section, duly made and enacted in accordance with the
					 provisions of sections 1100-1107 of the Public Health Law, shall apply to Mill
					 Creek and all watercourses tributary thereto or which may ultimately discharge
					 into said Mill Creek or the surface sources which may be developed in the
					 future to serve as sources of the water supply to the Village of Dansville,
					 Livingston County.
(b) Definitions.
(1) Chloride salt shall mean the solid
					 compounds or the solutions of potassium chloride (commonly used as fertilizer),
					 calcium chloride (commonly used for winter road maintenance) or sodium chloride
					 (commonly used for water-softener regeneration).
(2) Herbicide shall mean any substance used
					 to destroy or inhibit plant growth.
(3) Human excreta shall mean human feces and
					 urine.
(4) Junkyard shall mean an
					 area where two or more unregistered, old or secondhand motor vehicles are being
					 accumulated for purposes of disposal, resale of used parts or reclaiming
					 certain materials such as metal, glass, fabric and/or the like.
(5) Linear distance shall mean the shortest
					 horizontal distance from the nearest point of a structure or object to the
					 high-water mark of a reservoir, or to the edge, margin or steep bank forming
					 the ordinary high-water line of a watercourse.
(6) Pesticide shall mean any substance used
					 to destroy or inhibit pests such as rodents and insects.
(7) Pollutant shall mean dredge, spoil, solid
					 waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, chemical waste,
					 biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded
					 equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal or agricultural
					 waste discharged into water.
(8)
					 Radioactive material shall mean any material in any form that emits radiation
					 spontaneously. 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.
(9) Refuse shall mean all putrescible and
					 nonputrescible solid wastes, including garbage, manure, rubbish, ashes,
					 incinerator residue, street cleanings, dead animals, offal and solid commercial
					 and industrial wastes.
(10) 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 animal wastes resulting from the operation of such
					 farm are deposited.
(11) Reservoir
					 shall mean any natural or artificial lake or pond which is tributary to or
					 serves as a source of the public water supply of the Village of
					 Dansville.
(12) 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.
(13) Sewage disposal system
					 shall mean any system used for disposing of sewage.
(14) Toxic chemical shall mean any compound
					 or substance, including but not limited to gasoline, kerosene, fuel oil or
					 diesel oil, which is or may be harmful or poisonous to humans.
(15) 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.
(16) Water supply shall mean the public water
					 supply of the Village of Dansville.
(17) Watercourse shall mean every spring,
					 stream, marsh or channel of water of any kind which flows or may flow into the
					 Village of Dansville water supply.
(18) Watershed shall mean the entire drainage
					 area contributing water to the Village of Dansville water supply.