N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law Section 17-1701
Definition of sewage

  • discharge of sewage and other matter into certain waters prohibited

1.

For the purposes of this title sewage shall be defined as any substance, solid or liquid that contains any of the waste products or excrementitious or other wastes or washings from the bodies of human beings or animals.

2.

No person, corporation or municipality, shall place or cause to be placed, or discharged or cause to be discharged into any of the waters of this state, in quantities injurious to the public health, or in violation of standards, criteria, limitations, rules or regulations promulgated or applied pursuant hereto, any sewage, garbage, offal, or any decomposable or putrescible matter of any kind or the effluent from any sewage disposal plant, or any substance, chemical or otherwise, or any refuse or waste matter, either solid or liquid, from any sewer or drainage system or from any shop, factory, mill or industrial establishment; unless express permission to do so shall have been first given in writing by the commissioner as provided in this article, except as hereinafter provided.

3.

This section shall not prevent the discharge of sewage from any public sewer system owned and maintained by a municipality until an order prohibiting same shall be made as hereinafter provided, or the discharge of refuse or waste matter from any shop, factory, mill or industrial establishment, if such sewer system was in operation and was discharging sewage, or such shop, factory, mill or industrial establishment was in operation and discharging refuse or waste matter, into any of the waters of this state on or prior to May 7, 1903, and such municipality or the proprietor of such shop, factory, mill or industrial establishment secured exemption from this section by filing a report with the commissioner in accordance with law, nor to any extension or modification of such shop, factory, mill or industrial establishment, or reconstruction thereof, provided the refuse or waste matter discharged therefrom is not materially changed or increased; but this exception shall not permit any increase in the discharge of such sewage, or in the discharge of refuse or waste matter from any shop, factory, mill or industrial establishment, nor shall it permit the discharge of sewage from a sewer system which shall be extended, modified or reconstructed subsequent to said date. * NB Expired September 1, 1973

Source: Section 17-1701 — Definition of sewage; discharge of sewage and other matter into certain waters prohibited, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/ENV/17-1701 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Dec. 21, 2024).

17‑1701
Definition of sewage
17‑1703
Contamination of salt wells
17‑1704
Discharge of sewage and other offensive matter from new or renovated wastewater disposal systems to the surface waters of the Owasco lake...
17‑1705
Discharge of sewage into Wallkill Creek prohibited
17‑1707
Discharge of sewage into the Susquehanna near Binghamton prohibited
17‑1709
Discharge of sewage and other offensive matter into Lake George and Skaneateles lake prohibited
17‑1710
Deposit of garbage or other refuse on or in waters of the Owasco lake watershed extending from the city dam on the outlet to the existing...
17‑1711
Deposit of garbage or other refuse on or in waters of Lake George and Skaneateles lake and their tributaries prohibited
17‑1713
Discharge of sewage and other offensive matter into Brant Lake, Loon Lake, Friends Lake and Schroon Lake prohibited
17‑1715
Discharge of sewage and other offensive matter into Oneida Lake prohibited
17‑1717
Order to discontinue pollution of waters
17‑1719
Actions by municipalities to prevent discharge of sewage into waters
17‑1721
Reports of municipal authorities to local boards of health
17‑1723
Reports of proprietors of industrial establishments
17‑1725
Permission to discharge sewage
17‑1727
Permission to discharge refuse or waste matter from industrial establishments
17‑1729
Permits for conduit or discharge pipes
17‑1731
Revocation or modification of permits
17‑1733
Record of permits
17‑1735
Violations
17‑1737
Legal construction and limitations
17‑1739
Repeal of provisions
17‑1741
Sewerage
17‑1743
Reporting of spills of liquids stored in bulk
17‑1745
Sewage from vessels

Accessed:
Dec. 21, 2024

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

§ 17-1701’s source at nysenate​.gov

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