N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 10, § 121.1
(2) Wherever a linear distance of a structure or object from a reservoir is mentioned in this section, it is intended to mean the shortest horizontal distance from the nearest point of the structure or object to the high-water mark of the reservoir.
(c) Privies adjacent to the reservoir.
(6) Whenever it shall be found that, 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, excremental matter from any privy or aforesaid receptacle or from any trench or place of disposal may, in the opinion of the State Commissioner of Health, be washed over the surface of the ground or through the soil in an imperfectly purified condition into the reservoir, then the said privy or receptacle for excreta or the said trench or place of disposal 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.
(d) Sewage, sink wastes, garbage, etc.
(3) No clothing, bedding, carpet, harness, vehicle, receptacle, utensil nor anything that pollutes water shall be washed, rinsed or placed in the reservoir tributary to the public water supply of the city of Watertown.
(e) Bathing, animals, manure, compost, etc.
(4) 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 the reservoir 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 the reservoir 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 aforesaid 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 50 feet from the reservoir tributary to the public water supply of the city of Watertown.
(f) Dead animals, offal, manufacturing wastes, etc.
No dead animal, 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 the reservoir nor shall any such material or refuse be so located, placed, maintained or allowed to remain that the drainings, leachings or washings therefrom may reach the reservoir without first having percolated over or through the soil in a scattered, dissipated form and not concentrated in perceptible lines of drainage for a distance of 100 feet from the reservoir tributary to the public water supply of the city of Watertown.
(g) Fishing, boating and ice cutting.
No boating or fishing of any kind and no ice cutting or any trespassing whatever shall be allowed in or upon the waters or ice of the reservoir tributary to the public water supply of the city of Watertown, except by duly authorized employees of the city of Watertown in the performance of their duties of supervision and maintenance of the public water supply of the city of Watertown.
(h) Camps.
No temporary camp, tent, building or other structure for housing laborers engaged in construction work or for other purposes shall be located, placed or maintained within a distance of 500 feet of the reservoir tributary to the public water supply of the city of Watertown.
(i) Cemeteries.
No interment of a human body shall be made within a distance of 500 feet of the reservoir tributary to the public water supply of the city of Watertown.
(j) Inspections.
The department of water, light and power of the city of Watertown or such other board, person or persons as may be charged with the maintenance or supervision of the public water supply of the city of Watertown or their duly appointed representative shall make regular and thorough inspections of the reservoir 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 department of water, light and power 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 department of water, light and power to promptly notify the State Commissioner of Health of such violations. The department of water, light and power shall report to the State Commissioner of Health 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.
(k) Penalty.
In accordance with section 70 of chapter 45 of the Consolidated Laws (Public Health Law), as amended by chapter 395 of the Laws of 1928, 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 $100.
(a) Application.
The rules and regulations hereinafter given, duly made and enacted in accordance with the provisions of sections 70, 71 and 73 of chapter 45 of the Consolidated Laws (Public Health Law), as amended by chapter 395 of the Laws of 1928, shall apply to that artificial impounding reservoir or sedimentation basin formed by the construction of two dams across the northerly channel of the Black River between Huntington Island and the northerly bank of the river and to that section of the Black River tributary thereto for a distance of some 800 feet above the intake of the aforementioned reservoir and extending in an easterly direction to the mouth of the small tributary entering the river from the northeast, these bodies of water being sources of the public water supply of the city of Watertown, Jefferson County, NY.
(b) Definitions.