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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 Cornwall 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 Cornwall and no manure or compost of any kind shall be placed, piled or spread upon the ground within a distance of two hundred (200) feet from any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Cornwall.

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 place 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 drainage, 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 Cornwall.

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 three hundred (300) feet from any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Cornwall.

Fishing, Boating and Ice Cutting

15. No boating of any kind, or fishing from boats, or through the ice and no ice cutting 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 Cornwall.

Cemeteries

17. No interment of a human body shall be made within a distance of five hundred (500) feet from any reservoir or from any watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the village of Cornwall.

Inspections

18. The Board of Trustees of the village of Cornwall shall make regular and thorough inspections of the reservoirs, streams and drainage area 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 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 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 one hundred ($100) dollars. The foregoing rules and regulations for the protection from contamination of the public water supply of the village of Cornwall are hereby duly made, ordained, and established on this 4th day of April, 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.

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 Orange County and the affidavit of the printer, publisher or proprietor of each newspaper in which such publication is made, that 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 filing must be paid by the village of Cornwall.

ITHACA (Cornell University)

Rules and regulations for the protection from contamination of the public water supply of Cornell University, Ithaca, Tompkins 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 Consolidated Laws (Public Health Law), as heretofore set forth shall apply to all natural and artificial reservoirs on the Fall 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 Cornell University, at Ithaca, Tompkins county, New York. The term reservoir" wherever used in these rules is intended to mean and refer to all storage and impounding reservoirs on the Fall 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 purposes 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 Cornell University.

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 a reservoir or to the edge, margin or precipitous bank forming the ordinary high water mark of such watercourse.

Privies Adjacent to Any Reservoir or Watercourse

1. No privy, privy vault, pit, cesspool or any other receptable 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 fifty (50) feet of any reservoir or within fifteen (15) feet of any watercourse tributary to the public water supply of Cornell University.

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 within one hundred and thirty (130) feet of any watercourse tributary to the public water supply of Cornell University.

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 is at once removed by pump or other satisfactory means through watertight pipe or conduits to some proper place of ultimate disposal, as hereinafter provided, or unless suitable removable vessels or receptacles or watertight concrete vaults for the temporary storage of said human excreta or sewage are provided, the said vessels, receptacles or vaults being constructed and arranged in accordance with plans approved by and under the supervision of the authorities of Cornell University. The aforesaid removable vessels or receptacles or concrete vaults shall be at all times maintained in an absolutely watertight condition and shall be so arranged as to permit of convenient removal of the excreta deposited therein to some place of ultimate disposal as hereinafter set forth.

4. The excreta collected in the aforesaid removable receptacles and watertight concrete vaults permitted under Rule 3 shall be removed and the receptacles and vaults 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 or concrete vaults 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 of not less than five hundred (500) feet from any reservoir and not less than three hundred (300) feet from any watercourse tributary to the public water supply of Cornell University.

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 treuch 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 Cornell University, nor shall any such matters be thrown, placed, led, discharged or allowed to escape beneath the surface except into watertight receptacles, the contents of which are to be removed as provided by Rule 4, within three hundred (300) feet of any reservoir or within fifty (50) feet of any watercourse tributary to the public water supply of Cornell University.

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 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 fifty (50) feet from any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of Cornell University. 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 animal or poultry be allowed to stand, wallow, wade or swim in any reservoir or watercourse nor be washed therein.

11. 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 fifty (50) feet from any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of Cornell University 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 drainage, leachings or washings from the same may enter 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 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 fifty (50) feet from any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of Cornell University.

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 Cornell University 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 three hundred (300) feet from any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of Cornell University, and no manure or compost of any kind shall be placed, piled or spread upon the ground within a distance of fifty (50) feet from any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of Cornell University.

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 fifty (50) feet before entering any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of Cornell University.

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 one hundred (100) feet from any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of Cornell University.

15. No temporary camp, tent, building or other structure for housing laborers engaged on construction work or for other purposes shall be located, placed or maintained within a distance of three hundred (300) feet from any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of Cornell University.

16. No interment of a human body shall be made within a distance of two hundred (200) feet from any reservoir or from any watercourse tributary to the public water supply of Cornell University.

17. The board of trustees of Cornell University 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 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 condition of the watershed at time of the last inspection.

Penalty

18. In accordance with section 70 of chapter 70, 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 one hundred ($100) dollars.

The foregoing rules and regulations for the protection from contamination

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