N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law Section 17-1715
Discharge of sewage and other offensive matter into Oneida Lake prohibited

1.

No person or corporation shall cause or permit the fall, flow or discharge into Oneida lake or any of its tributaries of any sewage matter, or other foul, noxious or deleterious, solid or liquid matter, or effluent from any sewage disposal plant, or any matter that may be declared such by the board of health of any municipality adjacent to such lake where any such fall, flow or discharge shall occur.

2.

It shall be the duty of the board of health of any municipality where any such fall, flow or discharge shall occur to cause the same to be abated; provided that any person aggrieved by any such fall, flow or discharge may also cause such abatement, by injunction or other appropriate action or proceeding.

3.

The prohibition of the discharge of sewage effluent as hereinbefore in this section provided shall not apply to the treated effluent from a sewage or waste treatment plant which has been, or may be, constructed, maintained and operated in accordance with plans approved and a permit issued by the former Water Pollution Control Board. Such permit shall prohibit the discharge of sewage effiuent into Oneida lake or any of its tributaries in any quantities which will adversely affect said waters or which will render said waters unsuitable for any purpose recognized under the classification of said waters by the former Water Pollution Control Board. * NB Expired September 1, 1973

Source: Section 17-1715 — Discharge of sewage and other offensive matter into Oneida Lake prohibited, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/ENV/17-1715 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Apr. 27, 2024).

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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
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Accessed:
Apr. 27, 2024

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

§ 17-1715’s source at nysenate​.gov

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