File #: Int 0710-2022    Version: * Name: Posting water quality monitoring test results at beaches.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Parks and Recreation
On agenda: 9/29/2022
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to posting water quality monitoring test results at beaches
Sponsors: Joseph C. Borelli, Farah N. Louis, James F. Gennaro, Shekar Krishnan, Amanda Farías, Kevin C. Riley, Joann Ariola
Council Member Sponsors: 7
Summary: This bill would require the department of parks and recreation to post water quality monitoring test results, including detected contaminants and levels of detection, at comfort stations at all bathing beaches under the jurisdiction of the department. It would also require the department to post a description of types of contaminants tested for and threshold levels that would have to be reached to require the closure of a bathing beach.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 710, 2. Int. No. 710, 3. September 29, 2022 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-29-22, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - September 29, 2022
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2023*Joseph C. Borelli City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/29/2022*Joseph C. Borelli City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/29/2022*Joseph C. Borelli City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 710

 

By Council Members Borelli, Louis, Gennaro, Krishnan, Farías, Riley and Ariola

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to posting water quality monitoring test results at beaches

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Paragraphs 2 and 3 of subdivision c of section 18-131 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 29 for the year 2005, are amended to read as follows:

2. The availability of information regarding bathing beaches from the department of health and mental hygiene, which shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

(i) water quality monitoring test results including detected contaminants and respective levels;

(ii) a description of the types of contaminants tested for and the threshold level needed to be reached to require bathing beach closure;

[(i)] (iii) a statement of the availability of information posted pursuant to paragraph three of this subdivision on the department of health and mental hygiene’s official website and provided to the 311 citizen service center;

[(ii)] (iv) if a particular bathing beach is under advisory or closed, the reason for such advisory or closure;

[(iii)] (v) an explanation of how to file a beach-related illness complaint;

[(iv)] (vi) any other information the commissioner of health and mental hygiene shall deem appropriate or as required by law, rule or regulation.

3. The commissioner of health and mental hygiene shall make the information in subparagraphs [ii through iv] i, ii and iv through vi of paragraph two of this subdivision available on its official website and to the 311 citizen service center. In addition, the commissioner of health and mental hygiene shall make available on its official website and to the 311 citizen service center the information set forth in subparagraphs i through vi of this paragraph, and shall make the information in subparagraphs i, ii and iv of this paragraph available within twenty-four hours of receiving the results of any test performed, or by the end of the business day following receipt of the results of any test performed, whichever is later. 

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

 

 

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