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Title: Section 151.3 - Village of Saugerties

151.3 Village of Saugerties.

(a) Application. The rules and regulations hereinafter given, duly made and enacted in accordance with the provisions of sections 70, 71, 72 and 73 of chapter 45 of the Consolidated Laws (Public Health Law) as heretofore set forth shall apply to all natural and artificial reservoirs on the Plattekill Creek and all watercourses tributary thereto or ultimately discharging into said reservoirs, those bodies of water being sources of the public water supply of the village of Saugerties, Ulster County, New York.

(b) Definitions. (1) The term reservoir wherever used in this section is intended to mean and refer to all storage and impounding reservoirs on Plattekill Creek which are tributary to or which serve as sources of this public water supply or to any additional reservoir which may be constructed or used for the purpose of this public water supply.

(2) The term watercourse wherever used in this section is intended to mean and include every spring, pond (other than the artificial reservoirs and filter basins), stream, ditch, gutter or other channel of every kind, the waters of which when running, whether continuously or occasionally, eventually flow or may flow into the water supply of the village of Saugerties.

(3) Wherever a linear distance of a structure or object from a reservoir or from a 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 a reservoir or to the edge, margin or precipitous bank forming the ordinary high-water mark of such watercourse.

(c) Privies adjacent to any reservoir or watercourse.

(1) (i) 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 placed, maintained or allowed to remain within 75 feet of any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Saugerties, except the properly constructed and operated sewage disposal plant, as hereinafter set forth in subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (d), provided, however, that the property on which the privy, privy vault, pit, cesspool or any other receptacle intended for the deposit of human excreta is built or to be built is so located, bounded or otherwise placed that the distance above named can be obtained within the limits of such property.

(ii) Every privy, privy vault, pit or other receptacle used or intended for either the temporary storage or the permanent deposit of human excreta and built on property which is so located, bounded or otherwise placed that the distance named in subparagraph (i) of this paragraph cannot be obtained within the limits of such property shall be placed as far as possible from any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Saugerties and especially constructed of masonry, concrete or metal to form a watertight receptacle from which no outward percolation can take place. Where removable watertight vessels or receptacles are provided, they shall be placed in watertight concrete or masonry receptacles and shall be located as far as practicable from any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Saugerties. All receptacles referred to in this subparagraph shall be constructed only with the approval of and under the supervision of the board of water commissioners of the village of Saugerties and so located that the tops of such receptacles shall be above the highest known water level of the reservoir or tributary watercourses.

(iii) Whenever a privy, privy vault, pit or other receptacle of any kind used for either the temporary storage or permanent deposit of human excreta is especially constructed and made watertight and located nearer any reservoir or tributary watercourse than the distance named in subparagraph (i) of this paragraph, such receptacle shall be emptied at regular intervals and disinfected as often as may be necessary to maintain them in a proper sanitary condition and to effectually prevent any overflow and in the case of the properties occupied by the owners during the summer, the said receptacles shall be emptied at least once every fall at the end of the summer season, disinfected with lime and left empty during the winter. The work of emptying and disinfecting these receptacles shall be done under the supervision of or in accordance with direction of the board of water commissioners of the village of Saugerties and in such a manner as to effectually prevent any pollution of the public water supply of the village of Saugerties.

(2) No privy, privy vault, pit, cesspool or any 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 reservoir or any watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Saugerties. (3) Every privy, privy vault, pit or other receptacle or place, used for the temporary storage of human excreta which is constructed, located, maintained or allowed to remain between the limiting distances prescribed by paragraph (1) of this subdivision and the limiting distances prescribed by paragraph (2) of this subdivision, from which privy or other receptacle the excreta are not at once removed by pump or other satisfactory means through watertight pipes or conduits to some proper place of ultimate disposal, as hereinafter provided, shall be arranged in such manner that all such excreta shall be received temporarily in suitable vessels or receptacles which shall be at all times maintained in an absolutely watertight condition and which will permit of convenient removal to some place of ultimate disposal as hereinafter set forth.

(4) The excreta collected in the aforesaid temporary receptacles permitted under paragraph (3) of this subdivision shall be removed and the receptacles thoroughly cleaned and deodorized as often as may be found necessary 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 contents, while being transferred from the privy to the place of disposal, shall be thoroughly covered and that the least possible annoyance and inconvenience be caused to occupants of the premises and the adjacent premises.

(5) Unless otherwise specially ordered or permitted by the State Department of Health, the excreta collected in the aforesaid temporary receptacles permitted under paragraph (3) of this subdivision shall, when removed, be disposed of by burying in trenches or pits at a depth of not less than 18 inches below the surface and at a distance not less than 300 feet from any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Saugerties.

(6) Whenever, 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, it is considered by the State Commissioner of Health that excremental matter from any privy or aforesaid receptacles or from any trench or place of disposal or the garbage or wastes from any dump may be washed over the surface or through the soil in an imperfectly purified condition into any reservoir or watercourse, then the said privy or receptacles for excreta or the trench or place of disposal or the said garbage or waste dump 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.

(d) Sewage, house slops, sink wastes, etc.

(1) (i) No house slops, bath water, sewage or other excretal matter from any water closet, privy, cesspool or other source shall be thrown, placed, led, conducted, discharged or allowed to escape or flow in any manner either directly or indirectly into any reservoir or any watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Saugerties, nor shall any such matters be thrown, placed, led, discharged or allowed to escape or flow onto the surface of the ground or into the ground beneath the surface, except into watertight receptacles, the contents of which are to be removed as provided by paragraph (4) of subdivision (c), within 200 feet of any reservoir or any watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Saugerties.

(ii) No sewage disposal plant, the effluent from which is to be discharged or allowed to flow directly or indirectly into any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Saugerties, shall be operated, constructed, enlarged, altered or put in operation without permission of the State Commissioner of Health. All sewage disposal plants on the watershed of reservoirs or watercourses tributary to the public water supply of the village of Saugerties shall be operated and maintained under the supervision of the board of water commissioners of the village of Saugerties.

(2) No garbage, putrescible matter, kitchen or sink wastes, refuse or waste matter from any dairy, cheese factory nor water in which milk cans, utensils, clothing, bedding, carpets or harness have been washed or rinsed nor any polluted water or liquid of any kind except the effluent from a properly constructed and operated sewage disposal plant, as heretofore provided under subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (1) of this subdivision, shall be thrown or discharged into any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Saugerties, nor shall any such liquid or solid matter be thrown or discharged upon the surface of the ground or into the ground below the surface except into watertight vessels or receptacles, the contents of which are to be removed as provided by paragraph (4) of subdivision (c), within 100 feet from any reservoir or any watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Saugerties. (3) No clothing, bedding, carpets, harness, vehicle, receptacles, utensils nor anything that pollutes water shall be washed, rinsed or placed in any reservoir or watercourse.

(e) Bathing, animals, manure, compost, etc. (1) No person shall be allowed to bathe in any reservoir or watercourse, nor shall any animals or poultry be allowed to stand, wallow, wade or swim in any reservoir or watercourse nor be washed therein. The watering of animals or poultry in any reservoir of the public water supply of the village of Saugerties is prohibited, nor shall any such watering be allowed in any watercourse tributary to this supply within 1000 feet of said reservoirs. No watering place shall be maintained in such a way as to pollute by muddy leachings or excretal matters any streams tributary to the public water supply of the village of Saugerties.

(2) No stable for cattle or horses, barnyard, hogyard, pigpen, poultry house or yard, hitching place or standing place for horses or other animals, manure pile or compost heap shall be constructed, placed, maintained or allowed to remain with its nearest point less than 100 feet from any reservoir or any watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Saugerties, and none of the above named objects or sources of pollution shall be so constructed, placed, maintained or allowed to remain where or in such a manner that the drainings, leachings or washings from the same may enter any such reservoir or watercourse without first having 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 above 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 100 feet from any reservoir or any watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Saugerties.

(3) No human excreta, compost or other matter containing same shall be thrown, placed or allowed to escape into any reservoir or watercourse nor to be placed, piled or spread upon the ground at any point on any watershed tributary to the public water supply of the village of Saugerties, nor shall such human excreta, compost or other matter containing the same be dug or buried in the soil at a less depth than 18 inches below the surface nor within a distance of 300 feet from any reservoir or any watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Saugerties, and no manure or compost of any kind shall be placed, piled or spread upon the ground within a distance of 100 feet from any reservoir or any watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Saugerties.

(4) No decayed or fermented fruit or vegetables, cider mill wastes, roots, grain or other vegetable refuse of any kind shall be thrown, placed, discharged or allowed to escape or pass into any reservoir or watercourse, nor shall they be thrown, placed, piled, maintained or allowed to remain in such places that the drainings, leachings or washings therefrom may flow by open, blind or covered drains or channels of any kind into any reservoir or watercourse without first having passed over or through such an extent of soil as to have been properly purified, and in no case shall it be deemed that sufficient purification has been secured unless the above mentioned 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 100 feet before entering any reservoir or any watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Saugerties.

(f) Dead animals, offal, manufacturing wastes, etc. No dead animals, bird, fish or any part thereof nor any offal or waste matter of any kind shall be thrown, placed, discharged or allowed to escape or to pass into any reservoir or watercourse, nor shall any such material or refuse be so located, placed, maintained or allowed to remain that the drainings, leachings or washings therefrom may reach any such reservoir or watercourse without having first percolated over or through the soil in a scattered, dissipated form and not concentrated in perceptible lines of drainage for a distance of 150 feet from any reservoir or any watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Saugerties.

(g) Fishing, boating and ice cutting. No boating of any kind or fishing from boats or through the ice or any trespassing whatever sh all be allowed in or upon the waters or ice of the reservoirs except by written permission and in strict compliance with the regulations to be adopted by the board of water commissioners of the village of Saugerties, nor in any manner that may pollute the waters of this public water supply. All ice cutting shall be done under rigid inspection and supervision of the board of water commissioners. (h) Camps. No temporary camp, tent, building or other structure for housing laborers engaged in construction work or for other purposes shall be located, placed or maintained within a distance of 500 feet from any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Saugerties.

(i) Cemeteries. No interment of a human body shall be made within a distance of 250 feet from any reservoir or from any watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the Village of Saugerties.

(j) Inspections. The board of water commissioners shall make regular and thorough inspections of the reservoirs, streams 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 board of water commissioners to cause copies of any rules and regulations violated to be served upon the persons violating the same with notices of such violations; and if such persons served do not immediately comply with the rules and regulations, it shall be the further duty of the board of water commissioners to promptly notify the State Commissioner of Health of such violations. The board of water commissioners shall report in writing annually, on the first 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.

(k) Penalty. In accordance with section 70 of chapter 45 of the Consolidated Laws (Public Health Law), 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.
 

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