[Adopted 10-6-1981 by L.L. No. 2-1981 as
Ch. 104, Art. II, of the 1981 Code]
The rules and regulations hereinafter given,
duly made and enacted in accordance with the provisions of §§ 1100
through 1107 of the Public Health Law, shall apply to the well which
comprises the source of the public water supply of the Village of
Caledonia, Livingston County, New York. Said well is located on land
owned by the Village of Caledonia and is situated approximately in
the Village of Caledonia.
As used in this Article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
The solid compounds of potassium chloride (commonly used
as fertilizer), calcium chloride (commonly used for road maintenance)
or sodium chloride (commonly used for water softener regeneration
or road maintenance).
Human feces and urine.
An area where two or more unregistered, old or secondhand
motor vehicles are being accumulated for purposes of disposal, resale
of used parts or reclaiming certain materials such as metal, glass,
fabric, etc.
The shortest horizontal distance from the nearest point of
the structure or object to the well.
Any material in any form that emits radiation spontaneously.
All putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes, including
garbage, rubbish, ashes, incinerator residue, street cleanings, dead
animals, offal and solid commercial and industrial wastes.
Land used for the depositing of refuse, except that it shall
not include the land used for the depositing of refuse from a single
family, a member of which is the owner, occupant or lessee of said
land, nor any part of a farm on which only animal wastes resulting
from the operation of such farm are deposited.
The waste from a flush toilet, bath, sink, lavatory, dishwashing
or laundry machine or the water-carried wastes from any other fixture
or equipment or machine.
Any compound or substance which is or may be poisonous to
humans.
The public water supply of the Village of Caledonia, Livingston
County, New York.
The well now used as a source of the public water supply
or any additional well which may be constructed at this point as a
source for the public water supply.
A.
No privy, privy vault, pit or other receptacle of
any kind for either the temporary storage or the permanent deposit
of human excreta shall be constructed, located, placed, maintained
or allowed to remain within 250 feet of the well.
B.
No human excreta shall be deposited or spread upon
or beneath the surface of the ground within 250 feet of the well.
No sewage or polluted liquid of any kind shall
be discharged or allowed to flow on or beneath the surface of the
ground within 250 feet of the well, except into watertight pipes connected
to a sewage disposal system, a permit for which shall have been granted
by the appropriate state agency having jurisdiction over such facility.
It is provided, however, that no such watertight pipe shall be located
within 15 feet of the well.
No refuse shall be deposited on or beneath the
surface of the ground within 250 feet of the well.
No refuse disposal area shall be located within
500 feet of the well.
No interment of a human body shall be made within
250 feet of the well.
No container used for the storage of gasoline,
kerosene, fuel oil, diesel oil or toxic chemicals shall be buried
beneath the surface of the ground within 500 feet of the well.
No chloride salt storage area shall be located
within 500 feet of the well except in weatherproof buildings or watertight
vessels.
No radioactive material in excess of the quantity listed for said material in Table 4, Appendix 1, Part 16, Chapter 1, Ionizing Radiation, Title 10, Health (B), of the Official Compilation of Codes, Rules and Regulations of the State of New York shall be disposed of by burial in soil within 500 feet of the well.
No junkyard shall be located within 250 feet
of the well.
No trespassing shall be allowed on the property
of the Village of Caledonia upon which the well is located, and no
person or persons shall enter in or upon such property except such
person or persons as may be charged with the maintenance of the supply
in the official performance of their duties of supervision or maintenance
of the supply or except such other persons as may be authorized to
enter said property by the Village of Caledonia.
No person, including state agencies or political
subdivisions having jurisdiction, shall perform any act or grant any
permit or approval which may result in the contravention of the standards
for raw water quality as contained in Part 170, Subchapter C (Water
Supply Sources), Chapter 3 (Public Water Supplies), Title 10 (Health),
of the Official Compilation of Codes, Rules and Regulations of the
State of New York.
The Village of Caledonia or any person or persons
as may be charged with the maintenance or supervision of the water
supply or the water corporation, its officers or their duly appointed
representative shall make regular and thorough inspections of the
area surrounding the well so as to ascertain whether these rules and
regulations are being complied with. It shall be the duty of the aforesaid
Village of Caledonia to cause copies of any rules and regulations
violated to be served upon the persons violating the same, together
with notices of such violations. If such persons served do not immediately
comply with the rules and regulations, it shall be the further duty
of the aforesaid Village of Caledonia to promptly notify the State
Commissioner of Health of such violations. The aforesaid Village of
Caledonia shall report to the State Commissioner of Health in writing
annually, prior to the 30th day of January, the results of the regular
inspections made during the preceding year. The report shall state
the number of inspections which were made, the number of violations
found, the number of notices served, the number of violations abated
and the general surroundings of the well at the time of the last inspection.
Penalties for violations shall be in accordance
with § 1103 of the Public Health Law.
The foregoing rules and regulations for the
protection from contamination of the public water supply of the Village
of Caledonia are hereby duly made, ordained and established on this
second day of April 1973, pursuant to § 1100 of the Public
Health Law, effective upon filing with the Secretary of State.
