[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the
Town of Wawayanda 6-8-1949. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A.
No person, firm, corporation or municipality shall
place or cause or allow to be placed or discharge or cause or allow
to be discharged into any of the streams, watercourses or ditches
of the Town of Wawayanda or place or cause or allow to be placed or
discharge or cause to be discharged into any stream, watercourse or
ditch, with the result that the same shall flow into said Town, any
sewage, garbage, offal, animal matter or any decomposable or putrescible
matter of any kind or any substance, chemical or otherwise, or any
refuse or waste matter, solid or liquid, unless the same shall have
been previously so treated and processed as to be free from all noxious
odors and gases which may be injurious, disturbing or offensive to
the inhabitants of or to other persons in the Town or persons using
the roads, streets and ways of the Town and as to be free of all germs,
bacterial pollution and contamination which may be prejudicial to
the health and safety of persons therein or injurious to or destructive
of any fish in such streams or watercourses.
B.
In compliance with state, county and local health
laws regarding the testing of central water systems, it shall be the
responsibility of developers, where the land affected shall be owned
and/or developed by the developers, to take the required test samples
and send them to the appropriate health departments for testing and
approval. This shall apply to all central water systems presently
serving completed developments as well as those in the process of
being or in the future to be completed.
[Added 10-4-1973]
Any persons, firm, corporation or municipality
violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punishable by imprisonment
for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than $500, or
by both such fine and imprisonment, and for each and every violation
and for each and every day that such violation continues be subject
to a penalty of $250 to be recovered by the Town in a civil action.
