New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter III - Public Water Supplies › Subchapter A - Municipalities, Districts, Companies, Institutions › Part 126 - Montgomery County › Villages › Section 126.3 - Village of Fultonville

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 391 of
					 the Laws of 1933, shall apply to the well located near the reservoir on land
					 owned by the village, which well forms the source of the public water supply of
					 the Village of Fultonville, Montgomery County, New York. The rules shall apply
					 also to any additional well which may be constructed on land owned by the
					 village in the vicinity of the reservoir for the purpose of this public water
					 supply.
(b) [Interpretation.]
					 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 the well.
(c) Privies adjacent to any well.
(1) No privy, privy vault, pit or other
					 receptacle of any kind, placed or used for either the temporary storage or the
					 permanent deposit of human excreta, shall be constructed, located, placed,
					 maintained or allowed to remain within 100 feet of any well forming the source
					 of the public water supply of the Village of Fultonville.
(2) No privy, privy vault, pit, cesspool or
					 other receptacle, which is not watertight, placed or used for the permanent
					 deposit of human excreta, shall be constructed, located, placed, maintained or
					 allowed to remain within 200 feet of any well forming the source of the public
					 water supply of the Village of Fultonville.
(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 a suitable watertight receptacle or removable container which shall
					 be emptied as set forth in paragraphs (4) and (5) of this
					 subdivision.
(4) Whenever the
					 aforesaid watertight receptacles or removable containers become filled within
					 six inches of the top, said receptacles or containers shall be emptied or
					 removed and the contents disposed of as hereinafter provided, in order to
					 maintain the privy or receptacle in proper sanitary condition and 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 transported from the privy or
					 receptacle to the place of disposal hereinafter specified and that the contents
					 or the removable containers while being transported shall be thoroughly covered
					 and that the least possible annoyance and inconvenience be caused to occupants
					 of the premises and the adjacent premises.
(5) Unless otherwise specifically ordered or
					 permitted by the State Commissioner of Health, the excreta collected in the
					 aforesaid watertight receptacles or removable containers permitted under
					 paragraph (3) of this subdivision shall, when removed, be disposed of by
					 burying in trenches or pits and covered with not less than 12 inches of soil in
					 such a manner as effectually to prevent their being washed over the surface of
					 the ground by rain or melting snow and at a distance of not less than 500 feet
					 from any well forming the source of the public water supply of the Village of
					 Fultonville.
(6) Whenever it shall
					 be found that, owing to the character of the soil or of the surface of the
					 ground or owing to the height or flow of subsoil or surface water or other
					 special local conditions, 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 of the ground or
					 through the soil in an imperfectly purified condition into any well, then the
					 said privy or receptacle for excreta or the said 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.