N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 10 § 137.2

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 45, November 2, 2024

Section 137.2 - Village of cold spring

(a) Application. The following rules and regulations enacted in accordance with the provisions of sections 70, 71 and 72 of chapter 45 of the Consolidated Laws (Public Health Law), as finally amended by chapter 391 of the Laws of 1933, shall apply to the Foundry Brook and to all watercourses entering or ultimately discharging into said stream above the intake at the lower impounding reservoir, said stream being a source of water supply of the Village of Cold Spring in Putnam County.

(b) Definition of terms. Wherever used in this section:

(1) The term water supply means the public water supply furnished by the Village of Cold Spring.

(2) The term reservoir means any natural or artificially impounded body of water serving as a source of the aforesaid water supply and to any additional reservoir which may be constructed or used for the water supply.

(3) The term watercourse means every spring, pond (other than reservoirs), stream, marsh or channel of any kind, the waters of which flow or may flow into this water supply.

(4) The linear distance of a structure or object from a reservoir or watercourse is the shortest horizontal distance from the nearest point of the structure or object to the high-water mark of a reservoir or to the edge, margin or precipitous bank forming the ordinary high-water mark of such watercourse.

(c) Human excreta.

(1) No human excreta shall be deposited, thrown, placed or allowed to escape into any reservoir or watercourse.

(2) No human excreta shall be placed or spread upon the surface of the ground at any point on the watershed of the water supply.

(3) No human excreta shall be buried in the soil on the watershed of the water supply unless deposited in trenches or pits at a distance of not less than 200 feet from any reservoir or watercourse and covered with not less than 12 inches of soil in such a manner as to effectually prevent its being washed over the surface of the ground by rain or melting snow.

(4) No privy or receptacle of any kind for the storage or deposit of human excreta shall be constructed, placed, maintained or allowed to remain within 100 feet of any reservoir or watercourse.

(5) Every privy or receptacle for the storage or deposit of human excreta located between the distances of 200 feet and 100 feet from any reservoir or watercourse shall be arranged so that all excreta will be received in a suitable watertight receptacle or removable container, which shall be emptied when filled within six inches of the top. The contents, if disposed of on the watershed, shall be buried as set forth in paragraph (3) of this subdivision.

(6) Whenever, in the opinion of the State Commissioner of Health, excremental matter from any aforesaid privy, receptacle, trench or place of disposal may be washed over the surface of the ground or through the soil in an imperfectly purified condition into any reservoir or watercourse, the said privy, receptacle, trench or place of disposal shall be removed, after due notice to the owner thereof, to such places as shall be considered safe and proper by the State Commissioner of Health.

(d) Sewage. No sewage shall be discharged or allowed to flow into any reservoir or watercourse nor deposited on or beneath the surface of the ground within 200 feet of any reservoir or watercourse, except into watertight receptacles, the contents of which shall be disposed of as provided by paragraph (c)(3) of this section. If such watertight receptacles are used, they shall be located not less than 100 feet from any reservoir or watercourse. These restrictions and limiting distances shall not apply to sewage treatment plants installed under and in accordance with the plans which first have been submitted to and approved by the State Commissioner of Health.

(e) Wastes, refuse and garbage.

(1) No bath water, sink or laundry wastes shall be allowed to flow into any reservoir or watercourse nor be deposited on or beneath the surface of the ground within 100 feet of any reservoir or watercourse.

(2) No garbage, refuse, putrescible matter, decayed fruits or vegetables, dead animal or other material that pollutes water shall be deposited in any reservoir or watercourse nor on or beneath the surface of the ground within 75 feet thereof nor in such a manner that it can be washed by rain, melting snow or otherwise over the surface or through the ground into any reservoir or watercourse.

(f) Bathing. No person shall bathe or swim, or be allowed to bathe or swim in any reservoir or watercourse.

(g) Places for animals.

(1) No animal or poultry shall be allowed to stand, wade, wallow or swim nor be washed or watered in any reservoir and no watering place shall be maintained in such a way as to pollute any watercourse with excremental matter.

(2) No stable for cattle or horses, barnyard, hogyard, pigpen, poultry house or yard, hitching place or standing place for horses or other animals shall be so located or maintained in such a manner that the drainings, leachings or washings therefrom may directly pollute any reservoir or watercourse.

(h) Manure. No manure pile shall be maintained or allowed to remain within 50 feet of any reservoir or watercourse nor in such a manner as to pollute said reservoir or watercourse.

(i) Camps. No camp, tent, building or other structures for occupancy by transients or for the housing or laborers engaged in construction work or for any other use, except as a private camp or dwelling maintained by a person for his own personal use or for the use of his family and friends, shall be located, placed or maintained within a distance of 300 feet of any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the water supply.

(j) Cemeteries. No interment of a human body shall be made within a distance of 300 feet of any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the water supply.

(k) General clause. In addition to observing the foregoing requirements, all persons living on or visiting the watershed shall refrain from any act though not heretofore specified which may result in contamination of any portion of the water supply of the Village of Cold Spring.

(l) Inspections. The Village of Cold Spring or such other person or persons as may be charged with the maintenance or supervision of the water supply or the duly appointed representatives of said village shall make regular and thorough inspections of the reservoirs, watercourses and drainage areas tributary thereto for the purpose of ascertaining whether the above rules and regulations are being complied with, and it shall be the duty of said village to cause copies of any rules and regulations violated to be served upon the pesons violating the same, together with notices of such violations. If such persons served do not immediately comply with the rules and regulations, it shall be the further duty of the Village of Cold Spring to promptly notify the State Commissioner of Health of such violations. The Village of Cold Spring shall report to the State Commissioner of Health in writing annually, on the first day of January, the results of the regular inspections made during the preceding year, stating the number of inspections which have been made, the number of violations found, the number of notices served and the general condition of the watershed at the time of the last inspection.

(m) Penalty. In accordance with chapter 45 of the Consolidated Laws (Public Health Law), as amended, the penalty for each and every violation of or noncompliance with any of these rules and regulations which relate to a permanent source or act of contamination, is hereby fixed at $100.

N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 10 § 137.2