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 127.62 - Jericho 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 heretofore set forth, shall apply to all wells of the public
					 water supply of the Jericho 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 Jericho Water District.
(2) No privy, privy vault, 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 Jericho 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 paragraph (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
					 paragraph (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 Jericho 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 receptacles 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 or 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.