New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter III - Public Water Supplies › Subchapter A - Municipalities, Districts, Companies, Institutions › Part 111 - Delaware County › Villages › Section 111.3 - Village of Walton

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Privies
					 adjacent to reservoirs, springs or watercourses.
(1) No privy or place for the deposit or
					 storage of human excreta shall be constructed, located or maintained within 25
					 feet, horizontal measurement, of the high-water mark or precipitous bank of any
					 reservoir, spring, stream, ditch or watercourse which when running flows
					 eventually into a reservoir of the Walton water supply.
(2) No privy vault, pit or cesspool or
					 nontransportable receptacle of any kind for the reception or storage of human
					 excreta shall be constructed, located or maintained within 150 feet, horizontal
					 measurement, of the high-water mark or precipitous bank of any reservoir,
					 spring, stream, ditch or watercourse as aforesaid.
(3) Every privy or place for the deposit of
					 human excreta, which is constructed, located or maintained between the
					 aforesaid limits of 25 and 150 feet, horizontal measurement, from the
					 high-water mark or precipitous bank of any reservoir, spring, stream, ditch or
					 watercourse as aforesaid, and from which the said excrement is not at once
					 removed automatically by means of suitable watertight pipes or conduits to some
					 place of disposal beyond the said maximum limits, shall be arranged in such
					 manner that all such excreta shall be received and temporarily retained in
					 suitable vessels or receptacles, which shall at all times be maintained in an
					 absolutely watertight condition and which shall admit of convenient removal to
					 some place of ultimate disposal beyond the said maximum limits.
(4) The excreta collected in the aforesaid
					 removable receptacles shall be removed and the receptacles cleansed and
					 deodorized as often as is necessary to keep the receptacles in proper sanitary
					 condition and to prevent an overflow of the excreta upon the soil or floor of
					 the privy.
(5) The excreta so
					 collected shall be removed so as to cause the least nuisance possible and shall
					 be so disposed of that they cannot be washed either over the surface or through
					 the subsoil into any reservoir, spring, stream, ditch or watercourse of any
					 kind as aforesaid and shall be so placed as not to cause an offensive
					 nuisance.
(6) Whenever it shall be
					 found that, owing to the porous character of the soil, the height and flow of
					 the surface or subsoil waters, the steepness of the slopes or other special
					 conditions of the locality, the excremental matter from any privy, cesspool or
					 other receptable for human excreta may be washed over the surface or through
					 the subsoil into a reservoir or into any spring, stream, ditch or watercourse
					 aforesaid without having been thereby, in the opinion of the State Department
					 of Health, sufficiently purified, then the said privy, cesspool or other
					 receptacle shall, after due notice to the owner thereof, be removed to such
					 greater distance from said high-water mark as shall be considered safe and
					 proper by the Department of Health.