The rules and regulations hereinafter given, duly made and enacted in accordance with the provisions of Sections 70, 71 and 73 of Chapter 45 in Consolidated Laws (Public Health Law), as amended by Chapter 510 of the Laws of 1921,[1] shall apply to all natural and artificial reservoirs on
Hannacroix Creek and to all watercourses tributary thereto or ultimately
discharging into said reservoirs, these bodies of water being sources
of the public water supply of the Village of Ravena, Albany County,
New York.
[1]
Editor's Note: Currently, see Public Health Law § 1100
et seq.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Means and refers to all storage and impounding reservoirs
used for the collection or storage of the flow from the above-named
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.
Means and includes every spring, pond (other than the artificial
reservoirs and filter basins), brook, stream, ditch, gutter or channel
of any kind the waters of which when running, whether continuously
or occasionally, eventually flow or may flow into the public water
supply of the Village of Ravena.
Wherever a linear distance of a structure or object from a reservoir
or from a watercourse is mentioned in these rules, it is intended
to mean the shortest horizontal distance from the nearest point of
the structure or object to the high-water mark of such reservoir or
to the edge, margin or precipitous bank forming the ordinary high-water
mark of such watercourse.
