New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter III - Public Water Supplies › Subchapter A - Municipalities, Districts, Companies, Institutions › Part 104 - Cayuga County › Section 104.1 - City of Auburn and Town of Owasco

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Application. The rules and regulations
				  set forth in this section, duly made and adopted in accordance with the
				  provisions of sections 1100-1107 of the Public Health Law, shall apply to
				  Owasco Lake and its tributaries, which is a source of the public water supply
				  for both the City of Auburn and the Town of Owasco, Cayuga County, New York,
				  and to all watercourses tributary thereto or which may ultimately discharge
				  into said lake.
(b) Definitions.
(1) Agricultural-associated animal waste
				  shall mean manure obtained from agricultural industries.
(2) Agricultural-associated animal waste area
				  shall mean land used for the deposition of agricultural-associated animal waste
				  on the surface of the ground for fertilization purposes.
(3) Agricultural-associated animal waste
				  storage area shall mean land used for the temporary or permanent deposition of
				  agricultural-associated animal waste where said deposition is not directly for
				  the purpose of fertilization.
(4)
				  Chloride salt shall mean the solid compounds or 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).
(5) Herbicide shall
				  mean any substance used to destroy or inhibit plant growth.
(6) Human excreta shall mean human feces and
				  urine.
(7) 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.
(8) Lake shall mean Owasco Lake.
(9) Linear distance shall mean the shortest
				  horizontal distance from the nearest point of a structure or object to the
				  optimum high-water mark of the lake or to the edge, margin or precipitous bank
				  forming the optimum high-water mark of a watercourse.
(10) Manure shall mean animal feces and
				  urine.
(11)
				  Nonagricultural-associated animal waste shall mean manure obtained from
				  nonagricultural industries.
(12)
				  Optimum high-water mark shall mean 717.13 feet above sea level using United
				  States Geological Survey datum.
(13) Pesticide shall mean any substance used
				  to destroy or inhibit pests such as rodents and insects.
(14) 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, industrial and municipal waste and
				  agricultural-and nonagricultural-associated animal waste.
(15) 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.
(16) Radioactive material
				  shall mean any material in any form that emits radiation
				  spontaneously.
(17) 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.
(18) 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
				  agricultural-associated animal wastes resulting from the operation of such farm
				  are deposited.
(19) 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.
(20) Sewage disposal system
				  shall mean any system used for disposing of sewage, and includes treatment
				  works.
(21) Toxic substance shall
				  mean any toxic substance as so defined by subdivision 2 of section 4801  of the Public Health Law.
(22) Treatment works shall mean any treatment
				  plant, sewer, disposal field, lagoon, pumping station, septic system,
				  constructed drainage ditch or surface water intercepting ditch, incinerator,
				  area devoted to sanitary landfills or other works not specifically mentioned in
				  this paragraph, installed for the purpose of treating, neutralizing,
				  stabilizing, or disposing of sewage.
(23) Watercourse shall mean every spring,
				  stream, marsh or channel of water of any kind numbered on the latest Owasco
				  Lake Watershed Base Map of the Central New York Regional Planning and
				  Development Board.
(24) Watershed
				  shall mean the entire drainage area contributing water to Owasco
				  Lake.
(25) Water supply shall mean
				  the public water supply of both the City of Auburn and Town of Owasco, New
				  York, from Owasco Lake.