NR 500.03(189)
(189) “Recharge zone" means an area in which there are downward components of hydraulic head in the aquifer.
NR 500.03(189m)
(189m) “Recognized and generally accepted good engineering practices” means engineering maintenance or operation activities based on established codes, widely accepted standards, published technical reports, or a practice widely recommended throughout the industry. Such practices generally detail approved ways to perform specific engineering, inspection, or mechanical integrity activities.
NR 500.03(192)
(192) “Recycling facility" means a facility where waste is recycled and may include a facility where waste has been generated.
NR 500.03(194)
(194) “Registered professional engineer" means a professional engineer registered or licensed with the Wisconsin department of safety and professional services.
NR 500.03(195)
(195) “Registered professional geologist" means a professional geologist registered or licensed with the Wisconsin department of safety and professional services.
NR 500.03 Note
Note: Section
NR 700.03 (49) defines “remedial action options report" to mean “a report which identifies and evaluates various remedial options with the goal of selecting an option in compliance with the requirements of s.
NR 722.11."
NR 500.03(197)
(197) “Representative sample" means any sample of a universe or whole, such as groundwater or soils, which reliably exhibits the average properties of the universe or whole.
NR 500.03 Note
Note: See EPA Publication SW-846, Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Waste, Physical/Chemical Methods, Chapter
9 (
https://www.epa.gov/hw-sw846) dated September 1986 for a discussion and examples of representative samples.
NR 500.03(198)
(198) “Residue produced by burning municipal solid waste" means the residue produced in a municipal solid waste combustor designed and operated for controlled burning of solid wastes primarily to achieve volume and weight reduction or to change waste characteristics. This includes facilities such as boilers which also capture energy in the form of steam, electricity, heat, gas, oil or char from the burning of waste. Residue produced by burning municipal solid waste includes, but is not limited to, slag, ash, fly ash, reacted and unreacted scrubber lime, and soot. Residue produced by burning municipal solid waste does not include bypass waste which is rejected prior to burning.
NR 500.03(200)
(200) “RQD" means the rock quality designation calculated from a rock core collected from a boring.
NR 500.03 Note
Note: RQD is the ratio of the length of a rock core, adding only the intact pieces of core recovered greater than 10 centimeters long, to the total length cored. RQD ranges from 0 to 100 percent and should only be applied to cores greater than 5.4 centimeters in diameter.
NR 500.03(201)
(201) “Run-off" means any rainwater, leachate or other liquid that drains over land, from any part of a solid waste facility.
NR 500.03(202)
(202) “Run-on" means any rainwater, leachate, or other liquid that drains over land onto any part of a solid waste facility.
NR 500.03(203)(a)(a) “Salvageable material” means junk cars, machinery or equipment, scrap metal, or other junk or scrap materials that are of further usefulness mainly as a raw material for reprocessing, or as imperfect stock from which replacement or spare parts can be extracted.
NR 500.03(204)
(204) “Sampling period" means the month in which a sample is collected.
NR 500.03(205)
(205) “Saturated zone" means that part of the earth's crust in which all voids are filled with water excluding the capillary zone.
NR 500.03(206)
(206) “Seasonal high groundwater" means the set of groundwater level readings taken during which the highest water level occur in the majority of the groundwater wells within 300 feet of the proposed limits of filling.
NR 500.03(207)
(207) “Seasonal population" means the seasonal transient population in addition to the year round population.
NR 500.03(208)
(208) “Seismic impact zone" means an area with a 10% or greater probability that the maximum horizontal acceleration in lithified earth material, expressed as a percentage of the earth's gravitational pull, will exceed 0.10g in 250 years.
NR 500.03(209)
(209) “Sharps" means medical equipment or clinical laboratory articles that may cause punctures or cuts. Sharps include, but are not limited to, contaminated, unused and disinfected items listed in s.
NR 526.05 (1) (a).
NR 500.03(209m)
(209m) “Single-application landspreading" means landspreading where contaminated soil from only one remedial action site is all the contaminated soil that is ever applied onto an area of a property.
NR 500.03(212)
(212) “Sludge" means any solid, semi-solid or liquid waste generated from a municipal, commercial or industrial wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility.
NR 500.03(213)
(213) “Small size construction and demolition waste landfill" means a landfill with a design capacity of 50,000 cubic yards or less and used for the disposal of only construction and demolition wastes.
NR 500.03(214)
(214) “Soil" means material that has been physically and chemically derived from the bedrock by nature.
NR 500.03(214m)
(214m) “Soil barrier layer" means a soil layer or set of layers that is constructed as a subgrade for a GCL and which provides a smooth surface and hydration water source for the GCL, reduces flow through the barrier system, reduces settlement stresses on a GCL and geomembrane and minimizes geochemical effects on a GCL.
NR 500.03(219m)
(219m) “Source-separated compostable material" means compostable materials that are separated from non-compostable material at the point of generation for use in composting and are kept separate from municipal solid waste. Source-separated compostable material includes food residuals; farm and non-farm crop residues; botanical residuals; aquatic plants; vegetative food processing residues such as those from cannery and brewing activities; fish harvesting and processing residuals; yard residuals; farm and herbivorous animal manure, excluding deer and elk manure, and associated animal bedding; clean chipped wood; clean sawdust; non-recyclable compostable paper; and other similar materials approved in writing by the department. This term does not include biosolids, domestic wastewater, sewage sludge or septage, high-volume industrial waste, rendering or slaughterhouse wastes, animal carcasses, other solid waste, or hazardous waste.
NR 500.03(220)
(220) “Specific conductance" means the measurement of a water's ability to transmit an electrical current in micromhos/cm corrected to 25
°C.
NR 500.03(221)
(221) “Stabilization of waste" means any chemical, physical or thermal treatment of a waste, either alone or in combination with biological processes, which results in a significant reduction of pathogenic organisms including viruses.
NR 500.03(222)
(222) “Stabilization of a land disposal facility" means the process of waste settlement and associated land surface maintenance to insure that the majority of settlement has occurred, that pockets or depressions caused by settlement have been refilled or regraded, and that the final land surface contours represent a stable condition for closure and facility maintenance purposes.
NR 500.03(223)
(223) “Sterilization" means a process by which all forms of microbial life, including spores, viruses and fungi are destroyed.
NR 500.03(224)
(224) “Storage facility" means a solid waste facility for the storage of solid waste, on a temporary basis in such a manner as not to constitute ultimate disposal of solid waste.
NR 500.03(225)
(225) “Structural components" means liners, leachate collection systems, final covers, run-on/run-off systems, and any other component used in the construction and operation of the landfill that is necessary for protection of human health, welfare and the environment.
NR 500.03(226)
(226) “Sub-base grade" means the elevation of the facility or portion of the facility which has been excavated to its lowest level prior to the placement of any liner system.
NR 500.03(227)
(227) “Sub-soil horizon" means the soil horizon adjacent to and usually directly below the topsoil.
NR 500.03(228)
(228) “Subtitle D" means the United States Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Subtitle D solid waste disposal facility criteria as set forth in
40 CFR parts 257 and
258.
NR 500.03(229)
(229) “Subtitle D well" means a designated well installed at a landfill that accepts municipal solid waste and whose location and depth have been approved by the department specifically for monitoring purposes under Subtitle D of RCRA,
40 CFR parts 257 and
258.
NR 500.03(230)
(230) “Surface impoundment facility" means a storage or land disposal facility with a natural topographic depression, artificial excavation or dike arrangement which is used for storage or disposal of waste fluids, semi-solids or wastes containing free liquids.
NR 500.03(231)
(231) “SW-846" means the document “Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Waste, Physical/Chemical Methods," EPA Publication SW-846, third edition, November 1986, as amended by Updates I in July 1992, II in September 1994, IIA in August 1993, IIB in January 1995, III in December 1996 and IIIA in April 1998.
NR 500.03 Note
Note: The test methods are available at no cost at
https://www.epa.gov/hw-sw846/basic-information-about-how-use-sw-846#UseWhich. Copies of the test methods are available for inspection at the offices of the department of natural resources, the secretary of state and the legislative reference bureau. Copies may be obtained from the superintendent of documents, U.S. government printing office, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954, (866) 512-1800,
www.gpo.gov. Copies may also be obtained from the national technical information service, U.S. department of commerce, 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA 22161, (800) 553-6847,
www.ntis.gov.
NR 500.03(232)
(232) “Tank" means a stationary device not including manholes, designed to contain an accumulation of leachate or other waste which is constructed primarily of nonearthen materials, such as wood, concrete, steel or plastic, which provide structural support.
NR 500.03(233)
(233) “25-year, 24-hour storm" means a storm of 24-hour duration with a probable recurrence interval of once in 25 years as determined under s.
NR 205.05.
NR 500.03(235)
(235) “Top of the bedrock surface" means the top of the uppermost rock formation.
NR 500.03 Note
Note: The presence of bedrock shall be indicated when a majority of the drill cuttings or excavated material consist of either angular rock fragments, as in the case of crystalline bedrock, or rock fragments composed of individual grains or rock particles that are cemented together to form an aggregate, as opposed to single sediment particles, such as sand.
NR 500.03(236)
(236) “Topsoil" means natural loam, sandy loam, silt loam, silty clay loam or clay loam humus-bearing soils or other material that will easily produce and sustain dense growths of vegetation capable of preventing wind and water erosion of the material itself and of other materials beneath.
NR 500.03(237)
(237) “Total suspended particulates" means particulate matter as measured by the method described in Appendix B of
40 CFR part 50.
NR 500.03(237m)
(237m) “Trace chemotherapy waste" means items contaminated with antineoplastic chemotherapy drugs, including drug dispensing devices, gloves and other items that have come into contact with chemotherapy drugs.
NR 500.03(238)
(238) “Transfer facility" means a solid waste facility at which transferring of solid waste from one vehicle or container to another, generally of larger capacity, occurs prior to transporting to the point of processing or disposal.
NR 500.03(239)
(239) “Transportation service" means an operation which transports vehicles or containers or both vehicles or other means of conveying solid waste from the primary source of collection and includes all activities up to such time as the waste is delivered to a facility for transfer, processing, treatment or disposal.
NR 500.03(241)
(241) “Trip blank" has the meaning specified in s.
NR 149.03 (32).
NR 500.03 Note
Note: The term “trip blank" has been eliminated from ch.
NR 149. The concept is no longer defined or discussed in ch.
NR 149. However, “trip blank" is understood to mean a sample of reagent grade water or methanol, which is used to determine possible contamination of sample bottles from volatile organic chemicals while in transit to and from the laboratory.
NR 500.03(242)
(242) “Ultra low-level radioactive waste" means a waste generated at a wastewater or water treatment facility treating groundwater containing radium.
NR 500.03(243)
(243) “Uniformity coefficient" means the number resulting from dividing the grain size diameter in millimeters at the point where 60% of the material is finer by weight by the grain size diameter in millimeters at the point where 10% of the material is finer by weight.
NR 500.03(244)
(244) “Unsaturated zone" means the zone between the land surface and the water table in which the pore spaces contain water at less than atmospheric pressure, as well as air and other gases.
NR 500.03(245)
(245) “Unsaturated zone monitoring system" means a system used to measure soil moisture quantity or quality in the unsaturated zone beneath a regulated facility.
NR 500.03(246)
(246) “Unstable area" means a location that is susceptible to natural or human-induced events or forces capable of impairing the integrity of some or all of the landfill structural components responsible for preventing releases from a landfill. Unstable areas can include poor foundation conditions, areas susceptible to mass movements, and karst terranes.
NR 500.03(246m)
(246m) “Uppermost aquifer” means the geologic formation nearest the natural ground surface of a CCR landfill capable of yielding usable quantities of groundwater to wells or springs, as well as lower aquifers that are hydraulically interconnected with the uppermost aquifer within a CCR landfill's property boundary, as measured at a point nearest to the natural ground surface to which the aquifer rises during the wet season.
NR 500.03(247)
(247) “USCS" means the unified soil classification system.
NR 500.03(248)
(248) “USDA" means the United States department of agriculture.
NR 500.03(248m)
(248m) “USDOT" means the United States department of transportation.
NR 500.03(249)
(249) “U.S. government securities" means treasury bills, treasury bonds, treasury certificates, treasury notes and treasury stocks guaranteed by the federal government.
NR 500.03(250)
(250) “USGS" means the United States geological survey.
NR 500.03(252)
(252) “U.W.-Extension" means the university of Wisconsin extension.
NR 500.03(253)
(253) “Vegetable food residuals" means food residuals consisting of raw or cooked waste fruit and vegetable material from residences, food establishments such as cafeterias, restaurants, food wholesalers, food retailers and food processors, and includes compostable packaging, utensils, tableware, kitchenware, and containers that meet either the ASTM - D-6400 or the D-6868 standard.
NR 500.03 Note
Note: Copies of ASTM standards D-6400 and D-6868 may be obtained from ASTM International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, West Conshohocken, PA 19428-2959, (610) 832-9585,
www.astm.org. Copies of the standard are available for inspection at the offices of the department of natural resources and legislative reference bureau.
NR 500.03(253m)
(253m) “Vermicomposting" means the controlled and managed process by which live worms convert organic matter into dark, fertile granular excrement.
NR 500.03(254g)
(254g) “Washout” means the carrying away of solid waste by waters of a regional flood.
NR 500.03(254r)
(254r) “Waste boundary” means a vertical surface located at the hydraulically downgradient limit of a CCR unit and extends down into the uppermost aquifer.
NR 500.03(255)
(255) “Water table" means the upper surface of the saturated zone where the hydrostatic pressure is equal to atmospheric pressure.
NR 500.03(256)
(256) “Well" means any drillhole or other excavation or opening constructed for the purpose of obtaining or monitoring groundwater.
NR 500.03(257)
(257) “Well nest" means 2 or more wells installed within 10 feet of each other at the ground surface and constructed to varying depths.
