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 › Companies › Section 127.100 - Hempstead and Oyster Bay Water Company

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 510 of the Laws of 1921, shall apply to all wells
					 of the public water supply of the Hempstead and Oyster Bay Water Company,
					 Nassau 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 used for either the temporary storage or the permanent
					 deposit 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 Hempstead
					 and Oyster Bay Water Company.
(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 200 feet of any well of the public water supply of the
					 Hempstead and Oyster Bay Water Company.
(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 described 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
					 removable receptacles shall be removed and the receptacles cleaned and
					 disinfected as often as may be found necessary in order to maintain the privy
					 in proper sanitary condition and to effectually prevent any overflow upon the
					 soil or upon the foundation 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 to the place of disposal
					 hereinafter specified and that the least possible annoyance or inconvenience be
					 caused to occupants of the premises or to occupants of adjacent
					 premises.
(5) Unless otherwise
					 specially ordered or permitted by the State Commissioner of Health, the excreta
					 collected in the aforesaid receptacles shall, when removed, 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 manner as to effectually prevent them 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
					 Hempstead and Oyster Bay Water Company.
(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 in an imperfectly purified
					 condition into any well of the public water supply of the Hempstead and Oyster
					 Bay Water Company, 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.