N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 10, § 152.8
(4) The linear distance of a structure or object from a reservoir or watercourse is the shortest horizontal distance from the nearest point of the structure or object to the high-water mark of a reservoir or to the edge, margin or precipitous bank forming the ordinary high-water mark of such watercourse.
(c) Human excreta and sewage.
(8) No garbage, refuse or other material that pollutes water shall be deposited in any reservoir or watercourse nor on or beneath the surface of the ground within 200 feet thereof nor in such a manner that it can be washed by rain, melting snow or otherwise over the surface or through the ground into any reservoir or watercourse.
(d) Bathing.
No person shall bathe or swim or be allowed to bathe or swim in any reservoir or watercourse.
(e) Fishing, boating and ice cutting.
No boating or fishing of any kind, ice cutting or any trespassing whatever shall be allowed in or upon the waters or ice of any reservoir tributary to the public water supply, except by duly authorized employees of the North Creek Water District in the performance of their duties of supervision and maintenance of the water supply.
(f) Camps.
No camp, tent, building or other structures for occupancy by transients or 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 of any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the water supply. All provisions of Part 7 of the State Sanitary Code [Chapter I of this Title] relating to camps shall be complied with.
(g) [General clause.]
In addition to observing the foregoing requirements all persons living on or visiting a watershed shall refrain from any act though not heretofore specified which may result in contamination of any portion of the water supply of the North Creek Water District.
(h) Inspections.
The board of supervisors of the town of Johnsburg or such other person or persons as may be charged with the maintenance or supervision of the public water supply of the North Creek Water District or the duly appointed representatives of any such board shall make regular and thorough inspections of the reservoirs, watercourses and drainage areas 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 board 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 said board to promptly notify the State Commissioner of Health of such violations. The board of supervisors 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.
(i) 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 all natural and artificial reservoirs, watercourses and drainage areas tributary thereto or ultimately discharging into said reservoirs, serving as sources of the public water supply of the North Creek Water District, Town of Johnsburgh, Warren County, New York.
(b) Defintions of terms.
Wherever used in this section: