N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 10, § 147.57
(2) Wherever a linear distance of a structure or object from a well 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 well.
(c) Privies adjacent to any well.
(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 any well, 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.
(2) No garbage, putrescible matter, kitchen or sink wastes, refuse or waste matter from any garage nor any polluted water or liquid of any kind shall be thrown or discharged upon the surface of the ground or into the ground beneath the surface (except into watertight containers, the contents of which are to be removed as provided by paragraphs [4] and [5] of subdivision [c]) within 200 feet of any well of the public water supply of the North Fork Water Company, Inc.
(e) Animals, manure, compost, etc.
(2) No human excreta and no compost or other matter containing human excreta shall be thrown, placed, piled or spread upon the surface of the ground, nor shall such human excreta, compost or other matter containing human excreta be buried in the soil unless covered with not less than 12 inches of soil nor within a distance of 500 feet of any well; and no manure or compost of any kind shall be placed, piled or spread upon the ground within a distance of 200 feet of any well of the public water supply of the North Fork Water Company, Inc.
(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, maintained or allowed to remain upon the surface of the ground or buried beneath the surface within 300 feet of any well of the public water supply of the North Fork Water Company, Inc.
(g) Trespassing.
No trespassing shall be allowed upon the property of the North Fork Water Company, Inc. upon which the wells of the public water supply of the North Fork Water Company, Inc. are located and no person or persons shall enter in or upon such property except the duly authorized representative of the North Fork Water Company, Inc. or any such other person or persons who may be charged with the maintenance of the supply in the official performance of their duties of supervision or maintenance of the public water supply or except such other persons as may be authorized to enter said property by the North Fork Water Company, Inc.
(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 North Fork Water Company, Inc.
(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 North Fork Water Company, Inc.
(j) Inspections.
The North Fork Water Company, Inc., of Southhold, N. Y., or such other company, person or persons as may be charged with the maintenance or supervision of the public water supply of the unincorporated village of Southold or their duly appointed representative shall make regular and thorough inspections of the area surrounding the wells for the purpose of ascertaining whether the above rules and regulations are being complied with, and it shall be the duty of said North Fork Water Company, Inc. 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 North Fork Water Company, Inc. to promptly notify the State Commissioner of Health of such violations. The North Fork Water Company, Inc. 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 surroundings of 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), 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 the wells, located on land, owned by the North Fork Water Company, Inc. and situated approximately one and one-quarter miles west of Southold and 1,000 feet south of the Greenport Road on South Harbor Lane, which form the source of the public water supply of the North Fork Water Company, Inc., of Southold, Suffolk County, N. Y.
(b) [Definitions.]