The following rules and regulations enacted
in accordance with the provisions of §§ 1100, 1101,
1102 and 1103 of Chapter 45 of the Consolidated Laws (Public Health
Law), as finally amended by Chapter 879 of the Laws of 1953, shall
apply to Harriman Road reservoirs of the Village of Irvington and/or
to any reservoirs which have been or may be constructed to serve as
sources or any part of the public water supply of the Village of Irvington,
the water from which is tributary to or discharged into Harriman Road
reservoir or said reservoirs.
As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
HUMAN EXCRETA
Feces, urine and other excretions commonly disposed of by
the so-called "dry system" as typified by the ordinary privy.
LINEAR DISTANCE
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.
RESERVOIR
Harriman Road reservoir serving as the source of the water
supply and any reservoir which has been or may be constructed to serve
as any part of the water supply of the Village of Irvington.
SEWAGE
Waste liquids containing human excreta and decomposing matter
flowing in or from a house drainage system or sewer.
WATERCOURSE
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.
WATER SUPPLY
The public water supply of the Village of Irvington.
A. No human excreta shall be deposited, thrown or placed,
or allowed to escape into any reservoir or any tributary watercourse.
B. No human excreta shall be placed or spread upon the
surface of the ground at any point on the watershed of the water supply.
C. 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 500 feet from any reservoir or any
tributary watercourse and covered with not less than 18 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.
D. 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 any tributary watercourse, unless such privy or receptacle shall contain or be a watertight receptacle, removable or otherwise, and no sewage shall be discharged or allowed to flow into any reservoir or any tributary watercourse, nor upon the surface of the ground, at any point on the watershed of the supply, nor disposed beneath the surface of the ground within 100 feet thereof, except into a watertight receptacle, removable or otherwise, from which privy or receptacle no outward percolation can take place, and which shall be emptied when filled up to within six inches of the top. If the contents of any such privy or receptacle shall be disposed of on the watershed, such contents shall be buried as set forth in Subsection
C. All such privies and receptacles referred to in this regulation shall be placed as far as possible (within said limiting distances) from any such reservoir or tributary watercourse, as the property to which such privy or receptacle is appurtenant shall permit, and shall be constructed or installed only with the approval and under the supervision of the Village of Irvington and in such manner as effectually to prevent any pollution of the water supply. These restrictions and limiting distances shall not apply to sewage treatment plants installed under and in accordance with plans which first have been submitted to and approved by the State or Westchester County Commissioner of Health.
E. Whenever in the opinion of the State or Westchester
County Commissioner of Health, excremental matter from the 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 tributary 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 or Westchester County Commissioner of
Health.
No bath water, sink or laundry wastes or polluted liquid of any kind, except the effluent from a properly constructed and operated sewage treatment plant as hereinbefore provided by §
217-38D shall be discharged or allowed to flow into any reservoir or any tributary watercourse, nor be deposited beneath the surface of the ground within 50 feet of any reservoir or any tributary watercourse.
No garbage, refuse, putrescible matter, decayed
fruits or vegetables, dead animals or parts thereof, oil wastes or
any other matter that pollutes water shall be deposited in any reservoir
or tributary watercourse nor on or beneath the surface of the ground
within 100 feet of any reservoir or tributary watercourse, nor in
such manner that it can be washed by rain, melting snow or otherwise
over the surface or through the ground into any reservoir or tributary
watercourse.
No person or persons shall bathe or swim or
be allowed to bathe or swim in any reservoir or in any tributary watercourse
except in such bathing places as may be operated in accordance with
the State Sanitary Code and under the supervision of the State or
Westchester County Commissioner of Health.
No boating or fishing of any kind, ice cutting
or any trespassing whatever shall be allowed in or upon the waters
or ice of any reservoir or any tributary watercourse of the public
water supply, except by duly authorized officers or employees of the
Village of Irvington.
No animals or poultry shall be allowed to stand,
wade, wallow or swim nor to be washed or watered in any reservoir
or any tributary watercourse and no watering place shall be maintained
in such a way as to pollute any reservoir or tributary watercourse
with excremental matter.
No stables for cattle or horses, barnyard, hog
yard, 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 drainage, leachings or washings therefrom may pollute
any reservoir or any tributary watercourse.
No manure pile shall be maintained or allowed
to remain within 150 feet of any reservoir or any tributary watercourse.
No camp, tent, building or other structure for
the occupancy of laborers engaged in construction work or for other
use, except as a private camp or dwelling maintained by a person for
his own personal use or for use of family and friends, shall be located,
placed or maintained within a distance of 300 feet of any reservoir
or any tributary watercourses.
No internment of a human body shall be made
within a distance of 200 feet of any reservoir or any tributary watercourse.
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.
The Village of Irvington or such other person
or persons as may be charged with the maintenance or supervision of
the water supply, or the duly appointed representative of said Village,
shall make regular and thorough inspection of all reservoirs, watercourses
and watersheds 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 person 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 said Village to promptly notify the State and Westchester County
Commissioner of Health of such violations. The Village shall report
to the State Commission 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 conditions of the watershed at the time of the last
inspection.
In accordance with §§ 1100 and
1103 of Chapter 45 of the Consolidated Laws (Public Health Law), as
amended by Chapter 879 of the Laws of 1953, the penalty for each and
every violation or noncompliance with any of these rules and regulations
which relate to a permanent source or act of contamination is hereby
fixed at $100.
The foregoing rules and regulations for the
protection from contamination of the public water supply of the Village
of Irvington are hereby duly made, ordained and established this 17th
day of May 1954, pursuant to Chapter 45 of the Consolidated Laws (Public
Health Law), of the State of New York, as amended by Chapter 879 of
the Laws of 1953.