N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 10, § 143.7
(7) The term sewage means waste liquids containing human excreta and decomposing matter flowing in or from a house drainage system or sewer.
(c) Human excreta.
(6) Whenever, in the opinion of the State Commissioner of Health, excremental matter from aforesaid privy, receptacle, trench or place of disposal and sewage or wastes from any place of disposal may be washed over the surface of the ground or through the soil in an imperfectly purified condition into any spring, pond or watercourse, the said privy, receptacle, trench or place of disposal shall be removed, after due notice to the owner thereof, to such places as shall be considered safe and proper by the State Commissioner of Health.
(d) Sewage.
No sewage shall be discharged or allowed to flow into the springs, the pond or any watercourse nor deposited on or beneath the surface of the ground within 500 feet of the springs or within 200 feet of the pond or any watercourse except into watertight receptacles, the contents of which shall be deposited as provided by paragraph (3) of subdivision (c). If such watertight receptacles are used, they should be located not less than 300 feet from the springs or 100 feet from the pond or any watercourse.
(e) Wastes, refuse and garbage.
(2) No garbage, refuse, putrescible matter, decayed fruits or vegetables, dead animal or other material or wastes that pollute water shall be deposited in the springs or in the pond or watercourse nor on or beneath the surface of the ground within 200 feet of the springs or within 50 feet of the pond and watercourse nor in such a manner that it can be washed by rain, melting snow or otherwise over the surface or through the ground into the springs, pond or watercourse.
(f) Bathing, boating, fishing and ice cutting.
(2) 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 pond.
(g) Places for animals.
(2) No stable for cattle or horses, barnyard, hogyard, pigpen, poultry house or yard, hitching place or standing place for horses or other animals shall be located within 300 feet of the springs or within 100 feet of the pond or watercourse.
(h) Manure.
No manure pile shall be maintained or allowed to remain within 300 feet of the springs or within 50 feet of the pond or the watercourse nor in such manner as to pollute said springs, pond and watercourse.
(i) Camps.
No camp, tent, building or other structures for occupancy by transients nor for the housing of laborers engaged in construction work or for any other use, except as a private camp or dwelling maintained by a person for his own personal use or for the use of his family and friends, shall be located, placed or maintained within a distance of 500 feet from the springs and 200 feet from the pond or watercourse.
(j) Cemeteries.
No interment of a human body shall be made within a distance of 500 feet of the springs.
(k) Trespassing.
No trespassing shall be allowed upon the property of the Jefferson Water District upon which the springs of the public water supply of said district are located and no person or persons shall enter in or upon such property except such persons or persons as may be charged with the maintenance of the supply in the official performance of their duties or such other persons as may be authorized to enter said property by the said district.
(l) General clause.
In addition to observing the foregoing requirements, all persons shall refrain from any act, though not heretofore specified, which may result in contamination of any portion of the water supply.
(m) Inspections.
The Jefferson Water District or such other person or persons as may be charged with the maintenance or superversion of the water supply or the duly appointed representative of that district shall make regular and thorough inspections of the area surrounding the springs, the pond and the watercourse and the 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 the aforementioned district to cause copies of any rules and regulations violated to be served upon the person violating the same with notices of such violation, and if such persons served do not immediately comply with the rules and regulations, it shall be the further duty of the Jefferson Water District to promptly notify the State Commissioner of Health of such violations. The aforementioned water district shall report to the State Commissioner of Health in writing annually, on the first day of January, the results of the regular inspections which have been made, the number of violations found, the number of notices served and the general surroundings of the springs, pond and watercourse at the time of the last inspection.
(n) Penalty.
In accordance with section 70 of chapter 45 of the Consolidated Laws (Public Health Law), as amended by chapter 391 of the Laws of 1933, 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 following rules and regulations enacted in accordance with the provisions of sections 70, 71 and 73 of chapter 45 of the Consolidated Laws (Public Health Law), as finally amended by chapter 391 of the Laws of 1933, shall apply to the distributing reservoir and to all existing springs and such springs as may be developed in the future discharging into said reservoir which are located on what is known as the Ploof farm in Jefferson Town, and to any springs or reservoirs which may be constructed in the future and which serve as sources of the public water supply of the Jefferson Water District, Jefferson Town, Schoharie County, and shall also apply to the pond used as an emergency source of supply for fire protection in said district and any watercourse discharging into that pond.
(b) Definition of terms.
Wherever used in this section: