No person shall use or make available for the use of any other person, for drinking, bathing, culinary purposes or for the cleaning of utensils or for other domestic or potable purposes, any water unless the same shall be of a quality safe for the use to which the same is intended to be put and unless the said water shall fully meet the standards of quality for such purposes as fixed by the Director of Health of the State of New Jersey or by any other officer or department having the right or the power to fix or determine such quality.
No person shall pollute or permit to be polluted any spring, well, cistern, reservoir or other source of domestic or potable water supply or any surface waters which drain into any such source of supply.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II)]
Whenever the Health Officer shall have satisfactory evidence that any spring, well or cistern or other source of water, the water of which is used for domestic or potable purposes or for any of the purposes set forth in this article, has become polluted or rendered unsafe for the use to which the same is being put or is intended to be put, written notice to discontinue the use of said water and the well, cistern or other sources may be sent to the owner, agent or person in charge of said spring, well or cistern or other source of water, and such owner, agent or person shall forthwith, on receipt of such notice, close said spring, well or cistern or other source and discontinue or cause the discontinuance of the use of the said water until the cause of the pollution has been abated and until the said water shall be rendered safe and of the quality provided for in this article.