N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 10, § 154.6
(3) Wherever a linear distance of a structure or object from a reservoir or from a watercourse 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 a reservoir or to the edge, margin or precipitous bank forming the ordinary high-water mark of such watercourse.
(c) Privies adjacent to any reservoir or watercourse.
(2) Whenever, 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, it is considered by the State Commissioner of Health that excremental matter from any privy or aforesaid receptacle or from any trench or place of disposal or the garbage or wastes from any dump may be washed over the surface or through the soil in an imperfectly purified condition into any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the Village of Savannah, then the said privy or receptacle for excreta or the trench or place of disposal or the said garbage or waste dump 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.
(3) No clothing, bedding, carpets, harnesses, vehicles, receptacles, utensils nor anything that pollutes water shall be washed, rinsed or placed in any reservoir or watercourse.
(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 any reservoir or watercourse nor shall they be thrown, placed, piled, maintained or allowed to remain in such places that the drainings, leachings or washings therefrom may flow by open, blind or covered drains or channels of any kind into any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the Village of Savannah 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 sufficient purification has been secured unless the above-mentioned 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 100 feet of any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the Village of Savannah.
(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 on the surface of the ground or beneath the surface of the ground within 200 feet of any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the Village of Savannah.
(g) 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 reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the Village of Savannah.
(h) Cemeteries.
No interment of a human body shall be made within a distance of 500 feet of any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the public water supply of the Village of Savannah.
(i) Inspections.
The board of trustees of the Village of Savannah or such other board as may be charged with the maintenance or supervision of the public water supply of the village shall make regular and thorough inspections of the reservoir, 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 of trustees 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 board of trustees to promptly notify the State Commissioner of Health of such violations. The board of trustees 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 reservoir, watercourses and drainage areas tributary to the public water supply of the Village of Savannah at the time of the last inspection.
(j) Penalty.
In accordance with section 70 of chapter 45 of the Consolidated Laws (the 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 (the Public Health Law) as heretofore set forth shall apply to all natural and artificial reservoirs and to all watercourses tributary thereto or ultimately discharging into said reservoirs, these bodies of water being sources of the public water supply of the Village of Savannah, Wayne County, New York.
(b) Definitions.