Chapter 281
water and sewage
subchapter i
definitions
(precedes 281.01)
281.01 Definitions. In this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:
(3) “Department" means the department of natural resources.
(4) “Garbage" means discarded materials resulting from the handling, processing, storage and consumption of food.
(5) “Industrial wastes" includes liquid or other wastes resulting from any process of industry, manufacture, trade or business or the development of any natural resource.
(6) “Municipality" means any city, town, village, county, county utility district, town sanitary district, public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district or metropolitan sewage district.
(7) “Other wastes" includes all other substances, except industrial wastes and sewage, which pollute any of the surface waters of the state. The term also includes unnecessary siltation resulting from operations such as the washing of vegetables or raw food products, gravel washing, stripping of lands for development of subdivisions, highways, quarries and gravel pits, mine drainage, cleaning of vehicles or barges or gross neglect of land erosion.
(8) “Owner" means the state, county, town, town sanitary district, city, village, metropolitan sewerage district, corporation, firm, company, institution or individual owning or operating any water supply, sewerage or water system or sewage and refuse disposal plant.
(9) “Person" means an individual, owner, operator, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, municipality, interstate agency, state agency or federal agency.
(10) “Pollution" includes contaminating or rendering unclean or impure the waters of the state, or making the same injurious to public health, harmful for commercial or recreational use, or deleterious to fish, bird, animal or plant life.
(11) “Refuse" means all matters produced from industrial or community life, subject to decomposition, not defined as sewage.
(12) “Secretary" means the secretary of natural resources.
(13) “Sewage" means the water-carried wastes created in and to be conducted away from residences, industrial establishments, and public buildings as defined in s. 101.01 (12), with such surface water or groundwater as may be present.
(14) “Sewerage system" means all structures, conduits and pipe lines by which sewage is collected and disposed of, except plumbing inside and in connection with buildings served, and service pipes from building to street main.
(15) “Solid waste" means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility and other discarded or salvageable materials, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous materials resulting from industrial, commercial, mining and agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include solids or dissolved material in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges which are point sources subject to permits under ch. 283, or source material, as defined in s. 254.31 (10), special nuclear material, as defined in s. 254.31 (11), or by-product material, as defined in s. 254.31 (3).
(16) “System or plant" includes water and sewerage systems and sewage and refuse disposal plants.
(17) “Wastewater" means all sewage.
(18) “Waters of the state" includes those portions of Lake Michigan and Lake Superior within the boundaries of this state, and all lakes, bays, rivers, streams, springs, ponds, wells, impounding reservoirs, marshes, watercourses, drainage systems and other surface water or groundwater, natural or artificial, public or private, within this state or its jurisdiction.
(19) “Water supply" means the sources and their surroundings from which water is supplied for drinking or domestic purposes.
(20) “Waterworks" or “water system" means all structures, conduits and appurtenances by means of which water is delivered to consumers except piping and fixtures inside buildings served, and service pipes from building to street main.
Subchapter II
water resources
(precedes 281.11)
281.12 General department powers and duties.
281.13 Surveys and research.
281.15 Water quality standards.
281.17 Water quality and quantity; specific regulations.
281.19 Orders.
281.20 Orders; nonpoint source pollution.
subchapter iII
water quality and quantity;
general regulations
(precedes 281.31)
subchapter Iv
water and sewage facilities;
septage disposal
(precedes 281.41)
subchapter v
financial assistance
(precedes 281.51)
subchapter vi
compensation
(precedes 281.75)
subchapter vii
great lakes remedial action
(precedes 281.81)
Subchapter VIII
general provisions; enforcement
(precedes 281.91)
281.91 State agency personnel to report water pollution.
281.98 Penalties. (1) Except as provided in ss. 281.47 (1) (d) and 281.75 (19), any person who violates this chapter or any rule promulgated or any plan approval, license or special order issued under this chapter shall forfeit not less than $10 nor more than $5,000 for each violation. Each day of continued violation is a separate offense. While an order is suspended, stayed or enjoined, this penalty does not accrue.
(2) In addition to the penalties provided under sub. (1), the court may award the department of justice the reasonable and necessary expenses of the investigation and prosecution of the violation, including attorney fees. The department of justice shall deposit in the state treasury for deposit into the general fund all moneys that the court awards to the department or the state under this subsection. Ten percent of the money deposited in the general fund that was awarded under this subsection for the costs of investigation and the expenses of prosecution, including attorney fees, shall be credited to the appropriation account under s. 20.455 (1) (gh).
227,988
Section 988
. Chapter 283 of the statutes is created to read:
Subchapter I
Policy and Purpose
(precedes 283.001)
Subchapter II
Definitions
(precedes 283.01)
283.01 (6m) “Environmental pollution" means the contaminating or rendering unclean or impure the air, land or waters of the state, or making the same injurious to public health, harmful for commercial or recreational use, or deleterious to fish, bird, animal or plant life.
Subchapter III
STANDARDS; EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS
(precedes 283.11)
Subchapter IV
PERMITS
(precedes 283.31)
Subchapter V
GENERAL PROVISIONS; ENFORCEMENT
(precedes 283.81)
227,989
Section 989
. Chapter 285 of the statutes is created to read:
Chapter 285
Air Pollution
Subchapter I
DefinitionS
(precedes 285.01)
285.01 Definitions. In this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:
(3) “Air pollution" means the presence in the atmosphere of one or more air contaminants in such quantities and of such duration as is or tends to be injurious to human health or welfare, animal or plant life, or property, or would unreasonably interfere with the enjoyment of life or property.
(13) “Department" means the department of natural resources.
(21) “Hazardous substance" means any substance or combination of substances including any waste of a solid, semisolid, liquid or gaseous form which may cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness or which may pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment because of its quantity, concentration or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics. This term includes, but is not limited to, substances which are toxic, corrosive, flammable, irritants, strong sensitizers or explosives as determined by the department.
(28) “Municipality" means any city, town, village, county, county utility district, town sanitary district, public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district or metropolitan sewage district.
(33) “Person" means an individual, owner, operator, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, municipality, interstate agency, state agency or federal agency.
(35) “Refuse" means all matters produced from industrial or community life, subject to decomposition, not defined as sewage.
(38) “Secretary" means the secretary of natural resources.
(39) “Sewage" means the water-carried wastes created in and to be conducted away from residences, industrial establishments, and public buildings as defined in s. 101.01 (12), with such surface water or groundwater as may be present.
(40) “Solid waste" means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility and other discarded or salvageable materials, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous materials resulting from industrial, commercial, mining and agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include solids or dissolved material in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges which are point sources subject to permits under ch. 283, or source material, as defined in s. 254.31 (10), special nuclear material, as defined in s. 254.31 (11), or by-product material, as defined in s. 254.31 (3).
Subchapter II
General Powers and Duties
(precedes 285.11)
285.11 Air pollution control; department duties.
285.13 Air pollution control; department powers.
285.15 Interstate agreement.
Subchapter III
Air quality standards, performance
standards; Emission Limits and
Nonattaintment Areas
(precedes 285.21)
285.21 Ambient air quality standards and increments.
