New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter III - Public Water Supplies › Subchapter A - Municipalities, Districts, Companies, Institutions › Part 132 - Ontario County › Section 132.1 - City of canandaigua, villages of palmyra and newark in wayne county, and village of rushville in ontario and yates counties

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Application. The following rules and
				  regulations enacted under the authority of article 11 of the Public Health Law,
				  and of the whole thereof, as last amended by chapter 879 of the Laws of 1953,
				  shall apply to Canandaigua Lake and its tributaries which now serve or which
				  may be developed in the future to serve as sources of the public water supply
				  of the City of Canandaigua, Ontario County, the Villages of Palmyra and Newark
				  in Wayne County, and the Village of Rushville in Ontario and Yates Counties,
				  New York, and to all watercourses tributary thereto or ultimately discharging
				  into said Canandaigua Lake.
(b)
				  Definition of terms.
(1) The term water supply
				  means the public water supplies of the City of Canandaigua in Ontario County,
				  the Villages of Palmyra and Newark in Wayne County, and the Village of
				  Rushville in Ontario and Yates Counties, New York.
(2) The term lake means Canandaigua
				  Lake.
(3) The term watercourse
				  means every spring, pond, stream, marsh, road ditch or channel of any kind, the
				  waters of which flow or may flow into this water supply.
(4) The linear distance of a structure, tank,
				  pit or object from the lake or watercourse is the shortest horizontal distance
				  from the nearest point of the structure, tank or object to the high-water mark
				  of the lake or to the edge, margin or precipitous bank forming the ordinary
				  high-water mark of a watercourse.
(5) The term human excreta means feces, urine
				  and other excretions commonly disposed of by the so-called dry system as
				  typified by the ordinary privy.
(6)
				  The term sewage means waste liquids containing human excreta and decomposing
				  matter, waste liquids from bathrooms, kitchens or laundries, or polluted
				  liquids of any kind in or from the drainage system or sewer of a dwelling or
				  any structure occupied for commercial purposes.
(7) The term receptacle means septic tanks,
				  privy pits, cesspools, leaching cesspools, filter beds or other containers used
				  for the storage or processing of excreta, sewage or waste matter.
(8) The minimum capacity for any septic tank
				  to be installed either new or as a replacement on the watershed shall be 500
				  gallons.
(9) For the purpose of
				  graduating the severity of the subdivisions in application to different parts
				  of the drainage areas, so as to conform to the varying degrees of danger to the
				  water supply, the drainage area is divided into the following zones:
(i) Zone I shall include all the shores of
				  the lake together with all the drainage areas tributary to the lake except that
				  portion of the drainage area consisting of the West River and its
				  tributaries.
(ii) Zone II comprises
				  the drainage area of the West River and its tributaries.