2001 Chapter 281

CHAPTER 281

WATER AND SEWAGE

SUBCHAPTER I

DEFINITIONS

281.01 Definitions.

SUBCHAPTER II

WATER RESOURCES

281.11 Statement of policy and purpose.

281.12 General department powers and duties.

281.13 Surveys and research.

281.15 Water quality standards.

281.16 Water quality protection; nonpoint sources.

281.165 Compliance with water quality standards for wetlands.

281.17 Water quality and quantity; specific regulations.

281.19 Orders.

281.20 Orders; nonpoint source pollution.

281.22 Fees and time limits for water quality determinations for wetlands.

SUBCHAPTER III

WATER QUALITY AND QUANTITY;
GENERAL REGULATIONS

281.31 Navigable waters protection law.

281.33 Construction site erosion control and storm water management.

281.35 Water resources conservation and management.

281.36 Water quality certification for nonfederal wetlands.

281.37 Wetlands; compensatory mitigation.

SUBCHAPTER IV

WATER AND SEWAGE FACILITIES; SEPTAGE DISPOSAL

281.41 Approval of plans.

281.43 Joint sewerage systems.

281.45 House connections.

281.47 Sewage drains; sewage discharge into certain lakes.

281.48 Servicing septic tanks, soil absorption fields, holding tanks, grease traps and privies.

281.49 Disposal of septage in municipal sewage systems.

SUBCHAPTER V

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

281.51 Financial assistance program; local water quality planning.

281.53 Municipal clean drinking water grants.

281.55 Financial assistance program.

281.56 Financial assistance program; sewerage systems.

281.57 Financial assistance program; point source pollution abatement.

281.58 Clean water fund program; financial assistance.

281.59 Environmental improvement fund; financial management.

281.60 Land recycling loan program.

281.61 Safe drinking water loan program.

281.62 Other drinking water quality activities.

281.625 Drinking water loan guarantee program.

281.63 Financial assistance program; combined sewer overflow abatement.

281.65 Financial assistance; nonpoint source water pollution abatement.

281.66 Urban nonpoint source water pollution abatement and storm water management program.

281.665 Municipal flood control and riparian restoration program.

281.67 Watershed projects.

281.68 Lake management planning grants.

281.69 Lake management and classification grants and contracts.

281.695 Aids to municipalities for prevention and abatement of water pollution.

281.70 River protection grants.

281.71 Lake management project grants; river protection grants; purchases.

281.72 River protection; contracts with nonprofit organizations.

281.73 Wastewater and drinking water grant.

SUBCHAPTER VI

COMPENSATION

281.75 Compensation for well contamination.

281.77 Damage to water supplies.

SUBCHAPTER VII

GREAT LAKES REMEDIAL ACTION

281.81 Definitions.

281.83 Remedial action in the Great Lakes and their tributaries.

281.85 Great Lakes protection fund share.

SUBCHAPTER VIII

GENERAL PROVISIONS; ENFORCEMENT

281.91 State agency personnel to report water pollution.

281.92 Limitation.

281.94 Investigation of alleged water withdrawal violations.

281.95 Remedies; water withdrawal violations.

281.96 Visitorial powers of department.

281.97 Records; inspection.

281.98 Penalties.

281.99 Administrative forfeitures for safe drinking water violations.

Ch. 281 Note NOTE: 1995 Wis. Act 227 renumbered the provisions of chs. 144, 147, 159 and 162, Stats. 1993-94, to be chs. 280-299, Stats. 1995-96. For a table tracing former section numbers see the Addenda & Errata at the end of Volume 5.

Ch. 281 Cross-reference Cross Reference: See also chs. NR 102, 103, 104, 105, 809, 811, 812, and 845, Wis. adm. code.

subch. I of ch. 281 SUBCHAPTER I

DEFINITIONS

281.01 281.01  Definitions. In this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:

281.01(3) (3) "Department" means the department of natural resources.

281.01(4) (4) "Garbage" means discarded materials resulting from the handling, processing, storage and consumption of food.

281.01(5) (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.

281.01(6) (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.

281.01(7) (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.

281.01(8) (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.

281.01(9) (9) "Person" means an individual, owner, operator, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, municipality, interstate agency, state agency or federal agency.