New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter III - Public Water Supplies › Subchapter A - Municipalities, Districts, Companies, Institutions › Part 152 - Warren County › Districts › Section 152.7 - Diamond point water district, town of lake george

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Application. The rules and regulations
					 set forth in this section, duly made and adopted in accordance with the
					 provisions of sections 1100-1107 of the Public Health Law, shall apply to Smith
					 Brook and all tributaries above the intake of the supply which now serve or
					 which may be developed in the future to serve as sources of the public water
					 supply of the Diamond Point Water District, Town of Lake George, Warren County,
					 New York, and to all watercourses tributary thereto or ultimately discharging
					 into said public water supply or its reservoirs.
(b) Definitions.
(1) Agricultural-associated animal waste
					 shall mean manure obtained from agricultural industries.
(2) District shall mean the Diamond Point
					 Water District.
(3) Chloride salt
					 shall mean the solid compounds or 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).
(4) Herbicide shall
					 mean any substance used to destroy or inhibit plant growth.
(5) Human excreta shall mean human feces and
					 urine.
(6) Junkyard shall mean an
					 area where two or more unregistered old or secondhand 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.
(7) Linear distance shall mean the shortest
					 horizontal distance from the nearest point of a structure or object to the
					 high-water mark of the reservoir or the edge, margin or precipitous bank
					 forming the high-water mark of a watercourse.
(8) Manure shall mean animal feces and
					 urine.
(9)
					 Nonagricultural-associated animal waste shall mean manure obtained from
					 nonagricultural industries.
(10)
					 Pesticide shall mean any substance used to destroy or inhibit pests such as
					 rodents and insects.
(11) 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, industrial and
					 municipal waste and agricultural- and nonagricultural-associated animal
					 waste.
(12) 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.
(13) Radioactive
					 material shall mean any material in any form that emits radiation
					 spontaneously.
(14) 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.
(15) 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
					 agricultural-associated animal wastes resulting from the operation of such farm
					 are deposited.
(16) Reservoir shall
					 mean any natural or artificial lake or pond which is tributary to or serves as
					 a source of the public water supply of the Diamond Point Water
					 District.
(17) 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.
(18) Sewage disposal system
					 shall mean any system used for disposing of sewage, and includes treatment
					 works.
(19) Toxic substance shall
					 mean any toxic substance as so defined by subdivision 2 of section 4801  of the Public Health Law.
(20) 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 landfills or other works not specifically mentioned in
					 this paragraph, installed for the purpose of treating, neutralizing,
					 stabilizing or disposing of sewage.
(21) Trustee shall mean the town board of the
					 Town of Lake George as trustee for the Diamond Point Water District.
(22) Watercourse shall mean every spring,
					 stream, march, pond, reservoir or channel of water of any kind, the waters of
					 which flow or may flow into the Diamond Point Water District public water
					 supply.
(23) Watershed shall mean
					 the entire drainage area contributing to the Diamond Point Water District
					 public water supply.
(24) Water
					 supply shall mean the public water supply of the Diamond Point Water District,
					 Town of Lake George, Warren County, New York.