New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter III - Public Water Supplies › Subchapter A - Municipalities, Districts, Companies, Institutions › Part 139 - Rockland County › Companies › Section 139.15 - Haverstraw water supply company (new york water service corporation)

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) [Application.]
					 The following rules and regulations enacted in accordance with the provisions
					 of sections 70, 71 and 73 of chapter 45 of the Consolidated Laws (Public Health
					 Law), as finally amended by chapter 391 of the Laws of 1933, shall apply to all
					 natural and artificial reservoirs of the Haverstraw Water Supply Company (New
					 York Water Service Corporation), Haverstraw, New York, and to all watercourses
					 tributary thereto or ultimately discharging into said reservoirs, except as
					 noted specifically in subdivisions (e) and (f).
(b) Definition of terms. Wherever used in
					 this section:
(1) The term water supply means
					 the public water supply of the Haverstraw Water Supply Company (New York Water
					 Service Corporation).
(2) The term
					 reservoir means the reservoirs serving as sources of water supply of the
					 villages of Haverstraw and West Haverstraw and portions of the town of Stony
					 Point, Rockland County, New York, and shall include any additional reservoir
					 which may be constructed or used for said water supply.
(3) The term watercourse means every spring,
					 pond (other than reservoirs), stream, marsh or channel of any kind, the waters
					 of which flow or may flow into this water supply.
(4) The linear distance of a structure or
					 object from a reservoir or watercourse is the shortest horizontal distance from
					 the nearest point of the 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) The term human excreta means feces, urine
					 and other excretions, commonly disposed of by the so-called dry system as
					 typified by the ordinary privy.
(6)
					 The term sewage means waste liquids containing human excreta and decomposing
					 matter flowing in or from a house drainage system or sewer.
(7) For the purpose of regulating bathing,
					 fishing, boating and ice cutting (restricted under subdivisions [e] and [f])
					 according to the danger of pollution arising in proportion to the remoteness
					 from the intake on Cedar Pond Brook of the Haverstraw Water Supply Company (New
					 York Water Service Corporation) the drainage area will be considered as
					 consisting of two separate districts as follows:
(i) District A shall include that portion of
					 the watershed tributary to Cedar Pond Brook between the water works intake and
					 a point two miles upstream from this intake, and also all the watershed
					 tributary to any reservoirs on other watercourses which serve as sources of
					 water supply of the Haverstraw Water Supply Company (New York Water Service
					 Corporation).
(ii) District B shall
					 include the remaining area tributary to Cedar Pond Brook beyond the point two
					 miles upstream from the water works intake.