New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter III - Public Water Supplies › Subchapter A - Municipalities, Districts, Companies, Institutions › Part 140 - St. Lawrence County › Districts › Section 140.15 - Star lake water district, town of fine

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 the Public Health Law shall apply to Star Lake and to
					 all watercourses entering said lake situated in the county of St. Lawrence,
					 said lake being a source of water supply of the Star Lake Water
					 District.
(b) [Definitions.]
					 Wherever a linear distance of a structure or object from the lake or
					 watercourse is mentioned in this section, it is intended to mean the shortest
					 horizontal distance from the nearest point of the structure or object to the
					 high-water mark of Star Lake or to the edge, margin or precipitious bank
					 forming the ordinary high-water mark of such watercourse.
(c) [Human excreta, wastes, compost, etc.]
(1) No privy, cesspool, septic tank, tile
					 field, subsurface leaching area, privy vault, pit or other receptacle of any
					 kind placed or used for either the temporary storage or the permanent deposit
					 of human excreta and no bath water, laundry wastes, sewage or other excremental
					 matter from any water closet and no garbage, putrescible matter, kitchen or
					 sink waste and no stable, barnyard or other places for domestic animals and no
					 manure pile or compost heap shall be constructed, located, placed, maintained
					 or allowed to remain within 50 feet of Star Lake or any watercourse tributary
					 thereto forming the source of the public water supply of the Star Lake Water
					 District, and none of the above-named objects or sources of pollution shall be
					 constructed, located, placed, maintained or allowed to remain where or in such
					 a manner that the drainings, leachings or washings from the same may enter said
					 lake or watercourse without having first passed over or through such an extent
					 of soil as to have been properly purified, and in no case shall it be deemed
					 that proper purification has been secured unless the aforesaid drainings,
					 leachings or washings shall have percolated over or through the soil in a
					 scattered, dissipated form and not concentrated in perceptible lines of
					 drainage for a distance of not less than 50 feet from the shore line of Star
					 Lake or a watercourse thereof, forming the source of the public water supply of
					 the Star Lake Water District.
(2)
					 Whenever it shall be found that, 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, sewage, 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 of
					 the ground or through the soil in an imperfectly purified condition into Star
					 Lake or a watercourse thereof, then the said privy or receptacle for excreta or
					 the said trench or place of disposal shall, after due notice of 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.
(3) No human excreta and no compost or other
					 matter containing human excreta shall be thrown, placed, piled or spread upon
					 the surface of the ground, nor shall such human excreta, compost or other
					 matter containing human excreta be buried in the soil unless covered with not
					 less than 12 inches of soil nor within a distance of 250 feet of the shore line
					 of Star Lake or watercourse and no manure or compost of any kind, not
					 containing human excreta, shall be placed, piled or spread upon the ground
					 within a distance of 100 feet of Star Lake or watercourse forming a source of
					 the public water supply of the Star Lake Water District.