New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter III - Public Water Supplies › Subchapter A - Municipalities, Districts, Companies, Institutions › Part 108 - Clinton County › Districts › Section 108.13 - Morrisonville Water District

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a)
					 Application. The rules and regulations herein set forth, duly made and enacted
					 in accordance with the provisions of sections 1100-1107 of the Public Health
					 Law shall apply to Riley Brook and all watercourses tributary thereto or which
					 may ultimately discharge into said Riley Brook or which may be developed in the
					 future to serve as sources of the water supply to the Morrisonville Water
					 District.
(b) Definitions.
(1) Chloride salt shall mean the solid
					 compounds or the solutions of potassium chloride (commonly used as fertilizer),
					 calcium chloride (commonly used for winter road maintenance), or sodium
					 chloride (commonly used for water softener regeneration).
(2) Herbicide shall mean any substance used
					 to destroy or inhibit plant growth.
(3) Human excreta shall mean human feces and
					 urine.
(4) Junkyard shall mean an
					 area where two or more unregistered, old or secondhard motor vehicles are being
					 accumulated for purposes of disposal, resale of used parts or reclaiming
					 certain materials such as metal, glass, fabric, and/or the like.
(5) Linear distance shall mean the shortest
					 horizontal distance from the nearest point of a structure or object to the
					 high-water mark of a reservoir or to the edge, margin or steep bank forming the
					 ordinary high-water line of a watercourse.
(6) Pesticide shall mean any substance used
					 to destroy or inhibit pests such as rodents and insects.
(7) Pollutant shall mean dredge, spoil, solid
					 waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, chemical waste,
					 biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded
					 equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal and agricultural
					 waste discharged into water.
(8)
					 Radioactive material shall mean any material in any form that emits radiation
					 spontaneously. Radiation shall mean ionizing radiation, that is, any alpha
					 particle, beta particle, gamma ray, X ray, neutron, high-speed proton, and any
					 other atomic particle producing ionization, but shall not mean any sound or
					 radio wave, or visible, infrared, or ultraviolet light.
(9) Refuse shall mean all putrescible and
					 nonputrescible solid wastes including garbage, manure, rubbish, ashes,
					 incinerator residue, street cleanings, dead animals, offal and solid commercial
					 and industrial wastes.
(10) Refuse
					 disposal area shall mean land used for the depositing of refuse, except that it
					 shall not include the land used for the depositing of refuse from a single
					 family, a member of which is the owner, occupant or lessee of said land, or any
					 part of a farm on which only animal wastes resulting from the operation of such
					 farm are deposited.
(11) Reservoir
					 shall mean any natural or artificial lake or pond which is tributary to or
					 serves as a source of the Morrisonville Water District water supply.
(12) Sewage shall mean any liquid or solid
					 waste matter from a domestic, commercial, private or industrial establishment
					 which is normally carried off in sewers or waste pipes.
(13) Sewage disposal system shall mean any
					 system used for disposing of sewage.
(14) Toxic chemical shall mean any compound
					 or substance, including but not limited to gasoline, kerosene, fuel oil, or
					 diesel oil, which is or may be harmful or poisonous to humans.
(15) Treatment works shall mean any treatment
					 plant, sewer, disposal field, lagoon, pumping station, septic system,
					 constructed drainage ditch or surface water intercepting ditch, incinerator,
					 area devoted to sanitary land fill, or other works not specifically mentioned
					 in this paragraph, installed for the purpose of treating, neutralizing,
					 stabilizing or disposing of sewage.
(16) Water supply shall mean the public water
					 supply of the Morrisonville Water District, Town of Schuyler Falls, Clinton
					 County, New York.
(17) Watercourse
					 shall mean every spring, stream, marsh, or channel of water of any kind which
					 flows or may flow into the Morrisonville Water District's water
					 supply.
(18) Watershed shall mean
					 the entire drainage area contributing water to the Morrisonville Water
					 District's water supply.