New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter III - Public Water Supplies › Subchapter A - Municipalities, Districts, Companies, Institutions › Part 127 - Nassau County › Districts › Section 127.61 - Hicksville Water District, Town of Oyster Bay

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 (the Public
					 Health Law), as finally amended by chapter 510 of the Laws of 1921, as
					 heretofore set forth, shall apply to all wells of the public water supply of
					 the Hicksville Water District of the town of Oyster Bay, Nassau County, N.
					 Y.
(b) [Definition.] 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 such well.
(c) Privies adjacent to any well.
(1) No privy, privy vault, pit, cesspool or
					 receptacle of any kind used for the temporary storage of human excreta shall be
					 constructed, placed, maintained or allowed to remain within 100 feet of any
					 well of the public water supply of the Hicksville Water District unless
					 especially constructed of masonry, concrete or metal to form a watertight
					 receptacle from which no outward percolation can take place. All such
					 receptacles located within the limiting distance referred to in this paragraph
					 shall be constructed only with the approval of and under the supervision of the
					 board of water commissioners of the Hicksville Water District.
(2) No privy, privy vault, pit, cesspool or
					 other receptacle used for the permanent deposit of human excreta shall be
					 constructed, located, placed, maintained or allowed to remain within 200 feet
					 of any well of the public water supply of the Hicksville Water
					 District.
(3) No cesspool, pit or
					 other receptacle used for the temporary storage of human excreta or sewage
					 shall be constructed, located, maintained or allowed to remain between the
					 limiting distance prescribed by paragraph (1) of this subdivision and the
					 limiting distance prescribed by paragraph (2) of this subdivision unless said
					 cesspool, pit or other receptacle is watertight and so arranged and equipped
					 that the said excreta or sewage will not overflow and is at once removed by
					 pump or other satisfactory means through watertight pipes or conduits to some
					 proper place of ultimate disposal, as hereinafter provided, except that
					 suitable removable vessels or receptacles for the temporary storage of said
					 human excreta or sewage may be provided and maintained between the said
					 limiting distances if at all times maintained in an absolutely watertight
					 condition and in such manner as to permit of convenient removal of said excreta
					 or sewage to some place of ultimate disposal as hereinafter set
					 forth.
(4) The excreta collected in
					 the aforesaid removable vessels or receptacles permitted under paragraphs (1)
					 and (3) of this subdivision shall be removed and the vessels or receptacles
					 thoroughly cleaned and deodorized as often as may be found necessary in order
					 to maintain them or the privy or place in which they are kept in proper
					 sanitary condition and to effectually prevent any overflow upon the soil or
					 upon the foundation or floor of the privy or other place. In effecting this
					 removal the utmost care shall be exercised that none of the contents be allowed
					 to escape while being transferred from the privy or place of temporary storage
					 to the place of final disposal hereinafter specified and that the contents
					 while being transferred 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 removable receptacles permitted
					 under paragraphs (1) and (3) of this subdivision shall, when removed, be
					 disposed of by burying in trenches or pits at a depth of not less than 18
					 inches below the surface and at a distance not less than 500 feet from any well
					 of the public water supply of the Hicksville Water District.
(6) Whenever, 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, it is considered by the
					 State Commissioner of Health that excremental matter from any privy or
					 aforesaid receptacle or from any trench or place of disposal or the garbage or
					 wastes from any dump may be washed over the surface or through the soil in an
					 imperfectly purified condition into any well, then the said privy or receptacle
					 for excreta or the trench or place of disposal or the said garbage or waste
					 dump 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.