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 › Districts › Section 127.66 - West Hempstead-Hempstead Gardens Water District

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 provisions of
					 sections 70, 71 and 73 of chapter 45 of the Consolidated Laws (Public Health
					 Law), as amended by chapter 309 of the Laws of 1926, shall apply to all wells
					 of the public water supply of the West Hempstead-Hempstead Gardens Water
					 District, Nassau County, New York.
(b) [Definition.] 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 75 feet of any well of the public water supply of the West
					 Hempstead-Hempstead Gardens Water District.
(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 West Hempstead-Hempstead Gardens
					 Water District.
(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 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 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 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 othewise
					 specially 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 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 West
					 Hempstead-Hempstead Gardens Water District.
(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 West Hempstead-Hempstead Gardens Water District, 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.