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 147.61 - South bay consolidated water company, inc. at bay shore

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 395 of the Laws of 1928, shall apply to all wells
					 of the public water supply of the South Bay Consolidated Water Company, Inc. at
					 Bay Shore, 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 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 Bay Shore.
(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 100 feet of any well of the public water supply of the
					 South Bay Consolidated Water Company, Inc. at Bay Shore.
(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
					 watertight receptacles shall be removed and the receptacles cleansed and
					 disinfected as often as may be found necessary in order to maintain the privy
					 or receptacle 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 or
					 receptacle 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 specifically 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 Bay Shore.
(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 Bay Shore, 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.