New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter III - Public Water Supplies › Subchapter A - Municipalities, Districts, Companies, Institutions › Part 147 - Suffolk County › Companies › Section 147.62 - South bay consolidated water company, inc. at bellport

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 309 of the Laws of 1926, shall apply to all wells
					 of the public water supply of the South Bay Consolidated Water Company, Inc. at
					 Bellport, Suffolk County, New York.
(b) [Interpretation.] 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 75 feet of any well of the public water supply of the South Bay
					 Consolidated Water Company, Inc. at Bellport.
(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 South Bay Consolidated Water
					 Company, Inc. at Bellport.
(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 deposited 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 foundations 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 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 a manner as to effectually prevent their
					 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
					 South Bay Consolidated Water Company, Inc. at Bellport.
(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 into any well of the public water
					 supply of the South Bay Consolidated Water Company, Inc. at Bellport, 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.