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Village of Ravena, NY
Albany County
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No person shall be allowed to bathe in any reservoir or tributary thereof, nor shall any animal or poultry be allowed to stand, wallow, wade or swim in any reservoir nor be washed therein. The watering of animals or poultry in any reservoir of the public water supply of the Village of Ravena is prohibited. No watering place of any kind shall be maintained in such a way as to pollute with muddy leachings or excremental matters any streams tributary to the public water supply of the Village of Ravena.
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 75 feet from any reservoir or within 25 feet of any watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the Village of Ravena, 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 75 feet from any reservoir or 25 feet from any watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the Village of Ravena.
No human excreta and no compost or other matter containing human excreta shall be thrown, placed or allowed to escape into any reservoir or watercourse nor to be placed, piled or spread upon the surface of the ground at any point on the watershed tributary to the public water supply of the Village of Ravena, nor shall such human excreta or compost or other matter containing human excreta be buried in the soil at a lesser depth than 12 inches below the surface of the ground nor within a distance of 200 feet of any reservoir nor within 75 feet of any watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the Village of Ravena, and no manure or compost of any kind shall be placed, piled or spread upon the ground within a distance of 100 feet of any reservoir or within twenty-five feet of any watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the Village of Ravena.
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 any such place 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 75 feet before entering any reservoir or 25 feet before entering any watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the Village of Ravena.