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 › Towns › Section 133.20 - Town of newburgh

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 1100-1107 of the Public Health
					 Law, shall apply to Chadwick 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 Consolidated Water District of the Town of Newburgh, Orange County, New
					 York, hereinafter referred to as consolidated water district and to all
					 watercourses tributary thereto or ultimately discharging into said
					 reservoir.
(b) Definitions.
(1) Herbicide shall mean any substance used
					 to destroy or inhibit plant growth.
(2) Human excreta shall mean human feces and
					 urine.
(3) 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, etc.
(4) 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 precipitous bank
					 forming the ordinary high-water line of a watercourse.
(5) Pesticide shall mean any substance used
					 to destroy or inhibit pests such as rodents and insects.
(6) Radioactive material shall mean any
					 material in any form that emits radiation spontaneously.
(7) Refuse shall mean all putrescible and
					 nonputrescible solid wastes, including garbage, rubbish, ashes, incinerator
					 residue, street cleanings, dead animals, offal and solid commercial or
					 industrial wastes.
(8) Refuse
					 disposal area shall mean land used for the depositing of refuse, except that it
					 shall not include the land used for the deposition 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.
(9) Reservoir
					 shall mean any natural or artificial lake or pond which is tributary to or
					 serves as a source of the consolidated water district public water
					 supply.
(10) Sewage shall mean the
					 waste from a flush toilet, bath, sink, lavatory, dishwashing or laundry
					 machine, or the water-carried waste from any other fixture or equipment or
					 machine.
(11) Sewage disposal
					 system shall mean a system used for disposing of sewage, industrial wastes or
					 other wastes, and including sewers and treatment works.
(12) Toxic chemical shall mean any compound
					 or substance which is or may be poisonous to humans.
(13) Treatment works shall mean any plant,
					 disposal field, lagoon, pumping station, constructed drainage ditch or surface
					 water intercepting ditch, incinerator, area devoted to sanitary land fills, or
					 other works not specifically mentioned herein, installed for the purpose of
					 treating, neutralizing, stabilizing or disposing of sewage, industrial waste or
					 other wastes.
(14) Watercourse
					 shall mean every spring, stream, marsh or channel of any kind, the waters of
					 which flow or may flow into the consolidated water district public water
					 supply.
(15) Watershed shall mean
					 the entire drainage area contributing water to the consolidated water district
					 public water supply.
(16) Water
					 supply shall mean the public water supply of the consolidated water district,
					 Orange County, New York.