New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter III - Public Water Supplies › Subchapter A - Municipalities, Districts, Companies, Institutions › Part 136 - Otsego County › Villages › Section 136.2 - Village of Cherry Valley

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
[L. 1893, ch. 661, art. 5]
(a)
Privies adjacent to reservoirs,
					 springs or watercourses.
(1) No privy
					 or place for the deposit or storage of human excreta shall be constructed,
					 located or maintained within 50 feet, horizontal measurement, of the high-water
					 mark or precipitous bank of any reservoir, spring, stream, ditch or watercourse
					 of any kind, the water of which, when running, flows eventually into a
					 reservoir of the Cherry Valley public water supply.
(2) No privy vault, pit or cesspool or
					 nontransportable receptacle of any kind for the reception of storage of human
					 excreta shall be constructed, located or maintained within 250 feet, horizontal
					 measurement, of the high-water mark or precipitous bank of any reservoir or
					 within 130 feet, horizontal measurement, of the high-water mark or precipitous
					 bank of any spring, stream, ditch or watercourse as aforesaid.
(3) Every privy or place for the deposit of
					 human excreta which is constructed, located or maintained between the aforesaid
					 limits of 50 to 250 feet, horizontal measurement, of the high-water mark or
					 precipitous bank of any reservoir or 50 to 130 feet, horizontal measurement, of
					 the high-water mark or precipitous bank of any spring, stream, ditch or
					 watercourse as aforesaid and from which the said excrement is not at once
					 removed automatically by means of suitable watertight pipes or conduits to some
					 proper place of disposal beyond the maximum aforesaid limit shall be arranged
					 in such manner that all said excreta shall be received and temporarily retained
					 in suitable vessels or receptacles, which shall at all times be maintained in
					 an absolutely watertight condition, and which will admit of convenient removal
					 to some place of ultimate disposal beyond the said maximum limits.
(4) The excreta collected in the aforesaid
					 removable receptacles shall be removed and the receptacles cleansed and
					 deodorized as often as is necessary to keep the receptacles in proper sanitary
					 condition and to prevent an overflow of the excreta upon the soil or the floor
					 of said privy.
(5) The excreta so
					 collected shall be so removed as to cause the least nuisance possible and shall
					 be so disposed of that they cannot be washed either over the surface or through
					 the subsoil into any reservoir, spring, stream, ditch or watercourse of any
					 kind as aforesaid and shall be so placed as not to cause an offensive
					 nuisance.
(6) Whenever it shall be
					 found that, owing to the porous character of the soil, the height and flow of
					 surface and subsoil waters, the steepness of the slopes or other special
					 conditions of the locality, the excremental matter from any privy, cesspool or
					 other receptacle for human excreta may be washed over the surface or through
					 the subsoil into a reservoir or any spring, stream, ditch or watercourse
					 aforesaid without having been thereby, in the judgment of the State Board of
					 Health, sufficiently purified, then the said privy, cesspool or other
					 receptacle for human excreta shall, after due notice to the owner thereof, be
					 removed to such greater distance from said high-water marks as shall be
					 considered safe and proper by the State Board of Health.