N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 10, § 147.56
(2) Wherever a linear distance of a structure or object from a well or 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 such reservoir or to the edge of such well.
(c) Privies adjacent to any well or reservoir.
(6) Whenever it shall be found that, owing to the character of the soil or of the surface of the ground or to the height or flow of subsoil or surface water or other special local condition, the 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 or through the soil into any well of the public water supply of the Huntington Water Works Company, then the said privy or receptacle for excreta or the 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, house slops, sink wastes, etc.
(2) No garbage, putrescible matter, kitchen or sink wastes, refuse or waste matter from any dairy, cheese factory 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, discharged or allowed to escape or remain upon the surface of the ground or into the ground beneath the surface within 100 feet of any well of the public water supply of the Huntington Water Works Company.
(e) Animals, manure, compost, etc.
(2) No human excreta and no compost or other matter containing human excreta shall be thrown, placed or allowed to escape into any well or reservoir, nor shall such human excreta or compost or other matter containing human excreta be buried in the soil at a less depth than 12 inches below the surface of the ground nor within a distance of 500 feet of any well of the public water supply of the Huntington Water Works Company and no manure or compost of any kind shall be placed, piled or spread upon the ground within a distance of 75 feet of any well of the public water supply of the Huntington Water Works Company.
(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 any well or reservoir of the public water supply of the Huntington Water Works Company nor shall any such material or refuse be so placed, maintained or allowed to remain that the drainings, leachings or washings therefrom may reach any such well 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 300 feet from any well of the public water supply of the Huntington Water Works Company.
(g) Trespassing.
No trespassing shall be allowed upon the property upon which the reservoir of the public water supply of the Huntington Water Works Company is located and no person or persons shall enter in or upon such reservoir except the duly authorized employees of the Huntington Water Works Company in the official performance of their duties of supervision and maintenance of the public water supply.
(h) Camps.
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 500 feet of any well of the public water supply of the Huntington Water Works Company.
(i) Cemeteries.
No interment of a human body shall be made within a distance of 500 feet of any well of the public water supply of the Huntington Water Works Company.
(j) Inspections.
The duly authorized officials of the Huntington Water Works Company or any other person or persons who may be charged with the maintenance or supervision of the public water supply of said company or its duly appointed representative shall make regular and thorough inspections of the area surrounding the wells and reservoir for the purpose of ascertaining whether the above rules and regulations are being complied with, and it shall be the duty of said company 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 company to promptly notify the State Commissioner of Health of such violations. The company 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 area surrounding the wells at the time of the last inspection.
(k) Penalty.
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 $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 510 of the Laws of 1921, shall apply to all wells and reservoirs of the public water supply of the Huntington Water Works Company of Huntington, Suffolk County, N. Y.
(b) [Definitions.]