New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter III - Public Water Supplies › Subchapter A - Municipalities, Districts, Companies, Institutions › Part 148 - Sullivan County › Companies › Section 148.38 - Lake Louise Marie Water Company, Inc

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Public Health Law, § 1100
(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 Lake Louise Marie and its tributaries and to
						any reservoirs which now serve or which may be developed in the future to serve
						as sources of the public water supply of the Lake Louise Marie Water Company,
						Inc., Sullivan County, New York and to all watercourses tributary thereto or
						ultimately discharging into Lake Louise Marie or said
						reservoirs.
(b)
Definitions.
(1)
Herbicides
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 mark of a
					 watercourse.
(5)
Pesticide
shall mean any substance used to destroy 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 and 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 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.
(9)
Reservoir
shall mean any natural or artificial lake or pond
					 which is tributary to or serves as a source of the water supply of the Lake
					 Louise Marie Water Company, Inc.
(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 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 water supply of the
					 Lake Louise Marie Water Company, Inc.
(15)
Watershed
shall mean
					 the entire drainage area contributing water to the water supply of the Lake
					 Louise Marie Water Company, Inc.
(16)
Water supply
shall mean
					 the public water supply of the Lake Louise Marie Water Company, Inc., Sullivan
					 County, New York.