Section 17-1715. Discharge of sewage and other offensive matter into Oneida Lake prohibited  


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  • 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