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 127.64 - Manhasset-Lakeville Water District, Town of North Hempstead

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 510 of the Laws of 1921, shall apply to all wells
					 of the public water supply of the Manhasset-Lakeville Water District, town of
					 North Hempstead, Nassau County, New York.
(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 or receptacle
					 of any kind used for either the temporary storage or the permanent deposit of
					 human excreta shall be constructed, placed, maintained or allowed to remain
					 within 50 feet of any well of the public water supply of the
					 Manhasset-Lakeville 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 300 feet
					 of any well of the public water supply of the Manhasset-Lakeville Water
					 District.
(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 suitable watertight receptacles and shall at all
					 times be removed and disposed of as set forth in paragraphs (4) and (5) of this
					 subdivision.
(4) The excreta
					 collected in the aforesaid removable receptacles shall be removed and the
					 receptacles cleaned and disinfected as often as may be found necessary in order
					 to maintain the privy in proper sanitary condition and to 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 transferred from the privy to the
					 place of disposal hereinafter specified and that the least possible annoyance
					 and inconvenience be caused to occupants of the premises or of the adjoining
					 premises.
(5) Unless otherwise
					 specially ordered or permitted by the State Commissioner of Health, the excreta
					 collected in the aforesaid receptacles shall, when removed, be disposed of by
					 burying in trenches or pits at a depth of not less than 12 inches below the
					 surface of the ground and in such manner as to effectually prevent them being
					 washed over the surface of the ground by rain or melting snow and at a distance
					 not less than 500 feet from any well of the public water supply of the
					 Manhasset-Lakeville Water District.
(6) Whenever it shall be found that, owing to
					 the character of the soil or of the surface of the ground or to the height or
					 flow of subsoil or surface water or other special local condition, the
					 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 or through the soil in an imperfectly purified
					 condition into any well of the public water supply of the Manhasset-Lakeville
					 Water District, then the said privy or receptacle for excreta or the 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.