New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter III - Public Water Supplies › Subchapter A - Municipalities, Districts, Companies, Institutions › Part 122 - Lewis County › Section 122.1 - Village of Lowville

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 the
				  property of the village of Lowville, Lewis County, N. Y., on which are located
				  the springs and reservoirs which supply water to the village of Lowville,
				  consisting of lots numbers 250, 252, 265, 267, 279, 280, 281 and 292 located in
				  the town of Watson, Lewis County, adjacent to and southeast of the southeastern
				  corner of the town of New Bremen, Lewis County, N. Y., and bound as follows:
				  Beginning at a point at the northwest corner of lot number 267, and running
				  thence south 82° east 57.70 chains, thence south 8° west 31 chains, thence
				  north 82° west 21.50 chains, thence south 8° west 6 chains, thence north, 82°
				  west 9 chains, thence south 8° west 31 chains, thence south 83° east 30.50
				  chains, thence south 8° west 32.80 chains, thence south 83° east 119.90 chains,
				  thence north 8° east 61 chains, thence north 45° east 22.25 chains, thence
				  north 45° west 9.68 chains, thence north 45° east 14 chains, thence south 45°
				  east 9.68 chains, thence north 45° east 70.35 chains to the point of
				  beginning.
(b) [Interpretation.]
				  Wherever a linear distance of a structure or object from a reservoir or
				  watercourse 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
				  reservoir or watercourse.
(c)
				  Privies, sewage, house slops, etc.
(1) No
				  privy, privy vault, pit, cesspool or receptacle of any kind, used for the
				  temporary or permanent storage of human excreta, shall be located within the
				  boundary of the above described village property unless placed there by
				  authority of the board of water commissioners of Lowville, in which case such
				  privy, privy vault, pit, cesspool or receptacle of any kind shall be so placed
				  as not to cause any possible pollution of the water supply of the village of
				  Lowville.
(2) No house slops, bath
				  water, laundry or garage wastes or sewage or other excretal matter from any
				  water closet, privy, receptacle or other source shall be thrown, placed, led,
				  discharged, directly or indirectly into any reservoir or watercourse of the
				  water supply of the village of Lowville nor shall any such matters be thrown,
				  placed, led, discharged or allowed to escape on or beneath the surface of the
				  ground within the boundary of the above described village property tributary to
				  the source of public water supply of the village of Lowville.
(3) 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
				  waste from any dump may be washed over the surface or through the soil in an
				  imperfectly purified condition into any reservoir or watercourse, 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.