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permitted under Rule 3 shall, when removed, be disposed of by burying in trenches or pits at a depth of not less than 18 inches below the surface and at a distance not less than five hundred (500) feet from any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Corinth.

6. Whenever, owing to the character of the soil or of the surface of the ground, or owing to the height or flow of subsoil or surface water, or other special local conditions, it is considered by the State Commissioner of Health that excremental matter from any privy or aforesaid receptacles, or from any trench or place of disposal or the garbage or wastes from any dump, may be washed over the surface or through the soil in an imperfectly purified condition into any reservoir or watercourse, then the said privy or receptacle for excreta or the trench or place of disposal or the said garbage or waste dump, shall, after due notice to the owner thereof, be removed to such greater distance or to such place as shall be considered safe and proper by the State Commissioner of Health.

Sewage, House Slops, Sink Wastes, Etc.

7. No house slops, bath water, sewage or other excretal matter from any water closet, privy, cesspool or other source shall be thrown, placed, led, conducted, discharged or allowed to escape or flow in any manner either directly or indirectly into any reservoir or any watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Corinth, nor shall any such matters be thrown, placed, led, discharged or allowed to escape beneath the surface except into water-tight receptacles, the contents of which are to be removed as provided by Rule 4, within three hundred (300) feet of any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Corinth.

8. No garbage, putrescible matter, kitchen or sink wastes, refuse or waste water, from any creamery, cheese factory, laundry, nor water in which milk cans, utensils, clothing, bedding, carpets or harness have been washed or rinsed, nor any polluted water or liquid of any kind shall be thrown or discharged directly or indirectly into any reservoir or watercourse, nor shall any such liquid or solid refuse or waste be thrown, discharged or allowed to escape or remain upon the surface of the ground or to percolate into or through the ground below the surface in any manner whereby the same may flow into any reservoir or watercourse within a distance of two hundred (200) feet from any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Corinth.

9. No clothing, bedding, carpets, harnesses, vehicle, receptacles, utensils, nor anything that pollutes water, shall be washed, rinsed or placed in any reservoir or watercourse.

Bathing, Animals, Manure, Compost, Etc.

10. No person shall be allowed to bathe in any reservoir or watercourse, nor shall any animals or poultry be allowed to stand, wallow, wade or swim in any reservoir or watercourse, nor be washed therein. The watering of animals or poultry in any reservoir of the public water supply of the village of Corinth is prohibited, nor shall any such watering be allowed in any watercourse tributary to this water supply within one thousand (1,000) feet of said reservoir. No watering place shall be maintained in such a way as to pollute with muddy leachings or excretal matters any streams tributary to the public water supply of the village of Corinth.

11. No stable for cattle or horses, barnyard, hogyard, pig-pen, poultry house or yard, hitching place or standing place for horses or other animals, manure pile or compost heap, shall be constructed, piaced, maintained or allowed to remain with its nearest point less than two hundred (200) feet from any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Corinth, 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 two hundred (200) feet from any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Corinth.

12. 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 Corinth, nor shall such human excreta or compost or other matter containing human excreta be dug or buried in the soil at a less depth than 18 inches below the surface nor within a distance of five hundred (500) feet from any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Corinth and no manure or compost of any kind shall be placed, piled or spread upon the ground within a distance of one hundred (100) feet from any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Corinth.

13. 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 such places that the drainage, 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 one hundred and fifty (150) feet before entering any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Corinth.

Dead Animals, Offal, Manufacturing Wastes, Etc.

14. No dead animals, bird, fish or any part thereof nor any offal or waste matter of any kind, shall be thrown, placed, discharged or allowed to escape or to pass into any reservoir or watercourse. Nor shall any such material or refuse be so located, placed, maintained or allowed to remain that the drainage, leachings or washings therefrom may reach any such reservoir or watercourse without having first percolated over or through the soil in a scattered, dissipated form and not concentrated in perceptible lines of drainage, for a distance of two hundred and fifty (250) feet from any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Corinth.

Fishing, Boating and Ice Cutting

15. No boating of any kind, or fishing from boats, or through the ice, or any trespassing whatever shall be allowed in or upon the waters or ice of the reservoirs.

Labor Camps

16. No temporary camp, tent, building or other structures for housing laborers engaged on construction work or for other purposes shall be located, placed, or maintained within a distance of five hundred (500) feet from any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Corinth.

Cemeteries

17. No interment of a human body shall be made within a distance of three hundred (300) feet from any reservoir or from any watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Corinth.

Inspections

18. The board of trustees of the village of Corinth shall make regular and thorough inspections of the reservoirs, streams and drainage areas 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 board of trustees to cause copies of any rules and regulations violated to be served upon the persons violating the same with notices of such violations; and if such persons served do not immediately comply with the rules and regulations it shall be the further duty of the board of trustees to promptly notify the State Commissioner of Health of such violations. The board of trustees shall report in writing annually on the first of January, the results of the regular inspection 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 condition of the watershed at the time of the last inspection.

Penalty

19. In accordance with section 70 of chapter 45 of the Consolidated Laws (Public Health Law), the penalty for each and every violation of or noncompliance with, any of these rules and regulations which relate to a permanent source or act of contamination, is hereby fixed at two hundred ($200) dollars.

The foregoing rules and regulations for the protection from contamination of the public water supply of the village of Corinth are hereby duly made, ordained and established on this 24th day of January, 1917, pursuant to chapter 45 of the Consolidated Laws (Public Health Law) of the State of New York, as finally amended by chapter 665 of the Laws of 1915.

ALBANY, N. Y.

LINSLY R. WILLIAMS,

Acting State Commissioner of Health

These rules and regulations to be operative and valid must first be published at least once each week for six consecutive weeks in at least one newspaper in Saratoga county and the affidavit of the printer, publisher or proprietor of each newspaper in which such publication is made, that the publication was so made, together with a copy of the rules and regulations, must be filed with the county clerk of that county.

The cost of each such publication, affidavit and fi'ing must be paid by the village of Corinth.

CORNWALL

Rules and regulations for the protection from contamination of the public water supply of the village of Cornwall, Orange county.

Enacted by the New York State Commissioner of Health under chapter 49 of the Laws of 1909, constituting chapter 45 of the Consolidated Laws, as finally amended by chapter 665 of the Laws of 1915, (Public Health Law).

Rules and regulations

The rules and regulations hereinafter given, duly made and enacted in accordance with the provisions of sections 70, 71, 72 and 73 of chapter 45 of the Consolidatel Laws (Public Health Law) as heretofore set forth shall

apply to all natural and artificial reservoirs on Black Rock Brook 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 Cornwall, Orange county, N. Y. The term The term "reservoir," wherever used in these rules is intended to mean and refer to all storage and impounding reservoirs on the Black Rock Brook 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. The term watercourse wherever used in these rules is intended to mean and include every spring, pond (other than the artificial reservoirs and filter basins) stream, ditch, gutter, or other channel of every 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 Cornwall. 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 highwater mark of a reservoir or to the edge, margin or precipitous bank forming the ordinary highwater mark of such water

course.

Privies Adjacent to Any Reservoir or Watercourse

1. No privy, privy vault, pit, cesspool or any other receptacle of any kind used for either the temporary storage or the permanent deposit of human excreta shall be constructed, placed, maintained or allowed to remain within one hundred (100) feet of any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Cornwall.

2. No privy, privy vault, pit, cesspool or any other receptacle used for the permanent deposit of human excreta shall be constructed, located, placed, maintained or allowed to remain within three hundred (300) feet of any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Cornwall.

3. No cesspool, pit or other receptacle of any kind used for the temporary storage of human excreta or sewage shall be constructed, located, maintained or allowed to remain between the limiting distances prescribed by Rule 1 and the limiting distances prescribed by Rule 2 unless said cesspool, pit or other receptacle is so arranged and equipped that the said excreta or sewage are at once removed by pump or other satisfactory means through watertight pipes or conduits to some proper place of ultimate disposal, as hereinafter provided, or unless suitable removable vessels or receptacles for the temporary storage of said human excreta or sewage are provided and at all times maintained in an absolutely watertight condition and in such manner as to permit of convenient removal of said excreta or sewage to some place of ultimate disposal as hereinafter set forth.

4. The excreta collected in the aforesaid removable receptacles permitted under Rule 3 shall be removed and the receptacles thoroughly cleaned and deodorized as often as may be found necessary to maintain the privy in proper sanitary condition and to effectually prevent any overflow upon the soil or upon the foundation or floor of the privy. In effecting this removal the utmost care shall be exercised that none of the contents be allowed to escape while being transferred from the privy to the place of disposal hereinafter specified, and that the contents while being transferred from the privy to the place of disposal, shall be thoroughly covered and that the least possible annoyance and inconvenience be caused to occupants of the premises and the adjacent premises.

5. Unless otherwise specially ordered or permitted by the State Department of Health, the excreta collected in the aforesaid removable receptacles permitted under Rule 3 shall, when removed be disposed of by burying in trenches or pits at a depth of not less than 18 inches below the surface and at some suitable point off the watershed tributary to the public water supply of the village of Cornwall.

6. Whenever, owing to the character of the soil or of the surface of the ground, or owing to the height or flow of subsoil or surface water, or other

special local conditions it is considered by the State Commissioner of Health that excremental matter from any privy or aforesaid receptacle, or from any trench or place of disposal, or the garbage or wastes from any dump, may be washed over the surface or through the soil in an imperfectly purified condition into any reservoir or watercourse, then the said privy or receptacle for excreta, or the trench or place of disposal, or the said garbage or waste dump, shall, after due notice to the owner thereof, be removed to such greater distance or to such place as shall be considered safe and proper by the State Commissioner of Health.

Sewage, House Slops, Sink Waste, Etc.

7. No house slops, bath water, sewage or other excretal matter from any water closet, privy, cesspool or other source shall be thrown, placed, led, conducted, discharged or allowed to escape or flow in any manner either directly or indirectly into any reservoir or any watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Cornwall, nor shall any such matters be thrown, placed, fed, discharged or allowed to escape beneath the surface except intó watertight receptacles, the contents of which are to be removed as provided by Rule 4, within three hundred (300) feet of any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Cornwall.

8. No garbage, putrescible matter, kitchen or sink wastes, refuse or waste matter from any creamery, cheese factory or laundry, nor water in which milk cans, utensils, clothing, bedding, carpets, or harness have been washed or rinsed, nor any polluted water or liquid of any kind shall be thrown, or discharged directly or indirectly into any reservoir or watercourse, nor shall any such liquid or solid refuse or waste be thrown, discharged or allowed to escape or remain upon the surface of the ground or to percolate into or through the ground below the surface in any manner whereby the same may flow into any reservoir or watercourse within a distance of two hundred (200) feet from any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Cornwall.

9. No clothing, bedding, carpets, harnesses, vehicle, receptables, utensils, nor anything that pollutes water, shall be washed, rinsed, or placed in any reservoir or watercourse.

Bathing, Animals, Manure, Compost, Etc.

10. No person shall be allowed to bathe in any reservoir or watercourse, nor shall any animals or poultry be allowed to stand, wallow, wade or swim in any reservoir or watercourse, nor be washed therein. The watering of animals or poultry in any reservoir of the public water supply of the village of Cornwall is prohibited; nor shall any such watering be allowed in any watercourse tributary to this water supply. No watering place shall be maintained in such a way as to pollute with muddy leachings or excretal matters any streams tributary to the public water supply of the village of Cornwall.

11. No stable for cattle or horses, barnyard, hogyard, pig-pen, 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 three hundred (300) feet from any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Cornwall, 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 draindage for a distance of not less than three hundred (300) feet from any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Cornwall.

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