The following terms are defined as follows:
(1) "Adequate water supply" means a water supply which has a well yield and the pump capacity to provide the quantity and quality, where obtainable, according to s. NR 812.06, of water necessary for human or sanitary use, or for the preparation of food products and other purposes for which the water is intended to be used.(1h) "Agricultural crop field" means land where there is evidence that agricultural crops were or are being grown.(1p) "Air-gap" means the unobstructed vertical distance through the free atmosphere between the lowest opening from any pipe or faucet supplying water to a tank or plumbing fixture and the flood level rim or spill level of the receptacle.(1r) "Alcove" means a pit that shares a wall with a basement and is accessible from the basement. Note: In prior versions of ch. NR 812, an alcove was also sometimes referred to as a "subsurface pumproom."
(1t) "Animal barn" means a covered, paved or unpaved area in which animals are kept. This includes an area where an individual animal is kept, but does not include a single pet house or single pet kennel housing 5 or fewer adult pets on a residential lot.(2) "Animal barn pen" means a covered, enclosed concrete area where animals are kept.(3) "Animal yard" means an uncovered, paved or unpaved area in which animals are kept. This includes an area where an individual animal is kept, but does not include a single pet kennel enclosing 5 or fewer adult pets on a residential lot. An animal yard includes any fenced area where animals are kept or have access including pastures, feed lots, pens, calf hutches, lanes, and riding corrals.(4) "Animal shelter" means a covered, paved or unpaved area in which animals are kept. This includes an area where an individual animal is kept, but does not include a single pet house or single pet kennel housing 5 or fewer adult pets on a residential lot.(5) "Annular space" means the space between 2 concentric cylinders or circular objects, such as the space between an upper enlarged drillhole and a well casing pipe.(6) "API" means the American Petroleum Institute. Note: The API address is 1220 L Street NW, Washington DC 20005-4070.
(7) "Approval" means the prior approval of the department.(8) "Approved" means approved by the department.(9) "ASSE" means American society of sanitary engineering.(10) "ASTM" or "ASTM International" means the international technical standards organization originally known as the American Society for Testing and Materials. Note: The ASTM International headquarters address is 100 Barr Harbor Drive, PO Box C700, West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania 19148-2959.
(11) "Aquifer" means a geological layer of either unconsolidated material, usually sand or gravel or both, or bedrock lying below the ground surface, that is all or partially saturated with water and permeable enough to allow water to be extracted as from a well.(12) "Artesian pressure" means water pressure in an aquifer sufficient enough to cause the groundwater level in a well to rise above the level at which it was encountered in the well whether or not the water flows at the ground surface.(14) "AWWA" means American water works association.(15) "AWS" means American welding society.(16) "Bail-down method" means a method for setting a screen whereby the screen is fitted with an open pipe sleeve or a bail-down shoe at its lower end and sediment is removed from below the screen to allow the screen to settle into place.(17) "Basement" means a subsurface structure or part of a structure in which the floor is entirely below grade.(17m) "Batch chlorination" means the process of disinfecting a well by injecting, in one continuous pour, a chlorine solution that equals or exceeds the volume of standing water in the well and by using a process that recirculates the solution through the pump and pump discharge piping system back into the well.(18) "Bedrock" means any naturally formed consolidated or coherent material of the earth's crust, composed of one or more minerals, rock fragments or organic material that underlies any soil or other unconsolidated surficial material or is exposed at the surface. Bedrock includes, but is not limited to limestone (dolomite), sandstone, shale and igneous and metamorphic crystalline rock, including granite, rhyolite, quartzite, gabbro, basalt, gneiss, schist, diorite and greenstone.(19m) "Chemical conditioning" means using department-approved chemicals or products to restore a well to its original capacity, production capability or water quality.(20) "Cistern" means a tank in which rainwater is stored or collected.(22) "Clay slurry" means a fluid mixture of water, clean native clay, and drill cuttings or sand.(23) "Clear water" has the meaning specified in s. SPS 381.01 (56). Note: Section SPS 381.01 (56) defines "clear water" as wastewater other than storm water, having no impurities or where impurities are below a minimum concentration considered harmful by the department, including but not limited to noncontact cooling water and condensate drainage from refrigeration compressors and air conditioning equipment, drainage of water used for equipment chilling purposes and cooled condensate from steam heating systems or other equipment.
(24) "Community water system" has the meaning specified in s. NR 810.02 (6). Note: Section NR 810.02 (6) defines "community water system" as a public water system which serves at least 15 service connections used by year-round residents or regularly serves at least 25 year-round residents. Any water system serving 7 or more homes, 10 or more mobile homes, 10 or more apartment units, 10 or more duplex units, or 10 or more condominium units shall be considered a community water system unless information is provided by the owners indicating that 25 year-round residents will not be served.
(24m) "Comparable protection" means to substitute alternative protective measures to provide similar or equal sanitary protection to that provided by this chapter including the well location requirements of s. NR 812.08.(25) "Conduit" means piping or tubing used to protect discharge or suction piping or electrical wires.(26) "Confining bed" means a geological layer of either unconsolidated material, usually clay or hardpan, or bedrock, usually shale, that is all or partially saturated with water and having permeability low enough relative to the aquifer to give the water in the aquifer artesian head.(27) "Contaminant" means any physical, chemical, biological or radiological substance or matter in water.(27m) "Crawl space" means the space below a building having no basement; the space being at ground grade, in a depression or in an excavation.(27t) "Cross connection" has the meaning specified in s. NR 810.02 (9). Note: Section NR 810.02 (9) defines "cross connection" as a connection or potential connection between any part of a water supply system and another environment containing substances in a manner that, under any circumstances, would allow the substances to enter the water supply system by means of back siphonage or back pressure.
(28) "DHS" means the department of health services.(30) "Department" means the department of natural resources.(30f) "Detention basin" means an excavation into soils having low permeability or installed with a liner having low permeability, not having a permanent pool of water, designed and constructed to temporarily hold storm water to reduce peak discharges of storm water for flood control and to allow for the physical settling of pollutants.(30m) "Detention pond" means an impoundment that has a permanent pool of water and is designed to have the capacity to temporarily store storm water runoff to provide flood control and to allow for the physical settling of pollutants.(30t) "Ditch" means a long narrow excavation dug in the earth for the drainage of surface water.(31) "Drawdown" means the extent to which the water level or hydraulic head in and near a well is lowered when water is pumped or flows from the well.(32) "Drilled well" means a well constructed by boring, drilling, jetting, driving or similar methods. "Drilled well" includes a well constructed by driving a point in combination with a process to remove material below the 10-foot depth, or by a combination of jetting and driving.(33) "Drillhole" means an excavation or opening deeper than it is wide that extends more than 10 feet below the ground surface constructed for any purpose other than to obtain groundwater.(34) "Drilling mud" means a fluid mixture of water, sodium bentonite, drill cuttings and any approved additives.(35) "Driven point well" means a well constructed by joining a drive point with lengths of pipe, and driving the assembly into the ground with percussion equipment or by hand, but without first removing material below the 10-foot depth. "Driven point well" does not include a well constructed by driving a point in combination with a process to remove material below the 10-foot depth or by a combination of jetting and driving. Note: A "driven point well" is also known as a point well or sand point well.
(35g) "DSPS" means the department of safety and professional services.(35m) "Dug well" means a well consisting of a large diameter hole, deeper than it is wide, constructed into the ground, usually by hand, but if by mechanical means, by methods other than drilling, jetting or boring; and within which the side walls are supported by a curbing.(36) "Entry point" has the meaning specified in s. NR 809.04 (29). Note: Section NR 809.04 (29) defines "entry point" as a location in the public water system after treatment or chemical addition, if any, but prior to the distribution system. A sample collected in the distribution system may be considered an entry point sample if the department has determined it is more representative of the water sources.
(37) "Established ground surface" means the permanent elevation of the surface of the site of a well.(38) "Existing" when referring to an installation, well, water system, reservoir, spring, pit or alcove means an installation, well, water system, reservoir, spring, pit or alcove that was constructed, reconstructed or installed before July 1, 2020.(40) "FDA" means U.S. food and drug administration.(41) "Feature" means any well construction or pump installation item for which there is a specification in this chapter.(41m) "Filling and sealing" means to fill a well, drillhole, pit or reservoir with a material or materials so the well, drillhole, pit or reservoir will not act as a vertical conduit to contaminate another well, groundwater or an aquifer. Note: The term "filling and sealing" replaces the term "abandonment," previously used in this chapter.
(43) "Floodfringe" has the meaning specified in s. NR 116.03 (14). Note: Section NR 116.03 (14) defines "floodfringe" as that portion of the floodplain outside of the floodway, which is covered by flood water during the regional flood. The term "floodfringe" is generally associated with standing water rather than flowing water.
(44) "Floodplain" has the meaning specified in s. NR 116.03 (16). Note: Section NR 116.03 (16) defines "floodplain" as that land which has been or may be covered by flood water during the regional flood. The floodplain includes the floodway, floodfringe, shallow depth flooding, flood storage and coastal floodplain areas.
(45) "Floodway" has the meaning specified in s. NR 116.03 (22). Note: Section NR 116.03 (22) defines "floodway" as the channel of a river or stream, and those portions of the floodplain adjoining the channel required to carry the regional flood discharge.
(46) "Flowing well" means a well from which groundwater flows above the ground surface without pumping.(47) "Flushing" means causing a rapid intermittent flow of water from a well by pumping, bailing or similar operation.(48) "Grease interceptor" or "grease trap" has the meaning specified in s. NR 113.03 (21). Note: Section NR 113.03 (21) defines "grease interceptor" as a water tight receptacle designed to intercept and retain grease or fatty substances contained in kitchen and other food wastes. Grease interceptor and grease trap mean the same thing.
(49) "Groundwater" means any of the waters of the state, as defined in s. 281.01(18), Stats., occurring in a saturated subsurface geological formation of rock or soil. Note: Section 281.01(18), Stats., defines "waters of the state" to include 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.
(50) "Hazardous waste treatment facility" means "treatment facility" as defined in s. 291.01(22), Stats. Note: Section 291.01(22), Stats., defines "treatment facility" as a facility at which hazardous waste is subjected to treatment and may include a facility where hazardous waste is generated. This term does not include a wastewater treatment facility whose discharges are regulated under ch. 283, Stats., unless the facility is required to be permitted as a hazardous waste treatment facility under the resource conservation and recovery act.
(50b) "Heat exchange driller" means an individual who performs heat exchange drilling.(50d) "Heat exchange drillhole" has the meaning specified in s. 280.01(2b), Stats. Note: Section 280.01(2b), Stats., defines "heat exchange drillhole" as an excavation or opening in the ground that is deeper than it is wide, that extends more than 25 feet below the ground surface, and that is made for the purpose of installing a geothermal closed-loop heat exchange system.
(50e) "Heat exchange drilling" has the meaning specified in s. 280.01(2c), Stats. Note: Section 280.01(2c), Stats., defines "heat exchange drilling" as the industry and procedure employed in making heat exchange drillholes.
(51) "High capacity property" means one property on which a high capacity well system exists or is to be constructed.(52) "High capacity well" has the meaning specified in s. 281.34(1) (b), Stats. Note: Section 281.34(1) (b), Stats., defines "high capacity well" as a well, except for a residential well or fire protection well, that, together with all other wells on the same property, except for residential wells and fire protection wells, has a capacity of more than 100,000 gallons per day.
(53) "High capacity well system" means one or more wells, drillholes, or mine shafts used or to be used to withdraw water for any purpose on one property, if the total pumping or flowing capacity of all wells, drillholes, or mine shafts on one property is 70 or more gallons per minute based on the pump curve at the lowest system pressure setting, or based on the highest flow rate from a flowing well or wells.(54) "Holding tank" has the meaning specified in s. SPS 381.01 (121). Note: Section SPS 381.01 (121) defines "holding tank" as a watertight receptacle for the collection and holding of wastewater.
(54r) "Hung well casing pipe" means a casing pipe that is smaller in diameter than the enlarged drillhole into which it is placed and installed in a manner so it does not extend all the way to the bottom of the enlarged drillhole.(55c) "Infiltration basin" means an excavation into permeable soils designed and constructed to temporarily store surface water runoff and allow it to infiltrate so as to provide flood control, groundwater recharge and to allow for the settling of pollutants.(55s) "Land disposal system" has the meaning specified in s. NR 140.05 (11). Note: Section NR 140.05 (11) defines "land disposal system" as a facility for disposing of liquid wastes consisting of:
(a) absorption or seepage pond system, (b) ridge and furrow system, (c) spray irrigation system, (d) overland flow system, (e) subsurface field absorption system, (f) land spreading system, or (g) any other land area receiving liquid waste discharges.(56) "Landfill" has the meaning specified in s. NR 500.03 (120) or 660.10 (68). "Landfill" includes existing, proposed, and abandoned landfills, open dumps, one-time disposal landfills as defined in ch. NR 500, small and intermediate size construction and demolition waste landfills as defined in ch. NR 500, mining waste disposal sites as defined in ch. NR 182 and hazardous waste disposal facilities as defined in chs. NR 660 to 670. Note: Section NR 500.03 (120) defines "landfill" as a land disposal facility, not classified as a landspreading facility or surface impoundment facility, where solid waste is disposed on land by utilizing the principles of engineering to confine the solid waste to the smallest practical area, to reduce it to the smallest practical volume, and to cover it with a layer of earth or other approved material as required. Section NR 660.10 (68) defines "landfill" as a disposal facility or part of a facility where hazardous waste is placed in or on land and which is not a pile, a land treatment facility, a surface impoundment, an underground injection well, a salt dome formation, a salt bed formation, an underground mine, a cave or a corrective action management unit.
(57k) "Licensed heat exchange driller" has the meaning specified in s. NR 146.02 (4h). Note: Section NR 146.02 (4h) defines "licensed heat exchange driller" as an individual who has obtained a license pursuant to s. 280.15(2m), Stats., and s. NR 146.04, as a heat exchange driller and has paid the annual license fee under s. 280.15(2m) (c) 1, Stats.
(57m) "Licensed pump installer" has the meaning specified in s. NR 146.02 (4j). Note: Section NR 146.02 (4j) defines "licensed pump installer" as any individual who has obtained a license under s. 280.15(2m), Stats., and s. NR 146.04, as a pump installer and has paid the annual license fee under s. 280.15(2m) (c) 2, Stats.
(57s) "Licensed water well driller" has the meaning specified in s. NR 146.02 (4k). Note: Section NR 146.02 (4k) defines "licensed water well driller" as any individual who has obtained a license under s. 280.15(2m), Stats., and s. NR 146.04, as a water well driller and has paid the annual license fee under s. 280.15(2m) (c) 1, Stats.
(57t) "Lift station" means a wastewater collection and pumping structure that collects wastewater from collector sewers and pumps it through force main sewers.(57w) "Limits of filling" for a landfill has the meaning specified in s. NR 500.03 (127). Note: Section NR 500.03 (127) defines "limits of filling" as the outermost limit at which waste from a facility has been disposed of, or approved or proposed for disposal.
(58) "Liner pipe" means: (a) Protective well casing pipe installed subsequent to initial construction to seal off a zone of contamination; or(b) Well casing pipe installed during or subsequent to the initial well construction to seal off a caving or sloughing formation or to eliminate turbidity.(60e) "Living unit" has the meaning specified in s. NR 810.02 (26). Note: Section NR 810.02 (26) defines "living unit" as a residence, apartment unit, condominium unit, duplex unit, manufactured home or other domicile.
(60m) "Low capacity well" means a well that is not a high capacity well, as defined in sub. (52).(60s) "Lower drillhole" means that part of a drillhole below the well casing pipe.(61) "Manure hopper or reception tank" means a liquid-tight concrete, steel or otherwise fabricated vessel primarily for the purpose of facilitating conveyance of liquid or solid manure from one point to another in an animal waste handling system.(61g) "Manure loading area" means an area where manure is transferred from an animal shelter unloader or a barn unloader onto a pad or into a receptacle.(61m) "Manure stack" means solid manure stacked for more than 120 days on the ground surface or on a paved surface.(61q) "Manure storage structure, earthen" means an impoundment made by excavation or mounding of soil for treatment or temporary storage of liquid or solid animal wastes. This term includes structures lined with clay, bentonite or synthetic film materials and structures consisting of slats or drainage openings ("picket dams") used to store solid or semi-solid animal waste material from which runoff occurs. This term also includes fabricated manure storage structures that are not watertight situated above, at or below ground grade.(61u) "Manure storage structure, fabricated" means a concrete, steel or otherwise fabricated structure used for treatment or temporary storage of liquid or solid animal waste.(62) Materials recovery facility" has the meaning specified in s. 287.27(1), Stats. Note: Section 287.27(1), Stats., defines "materials recovery facility" as a facility where the materials specified in s. 287.07(3) or (4) or 287.27(4) (b), Stats., not mixed with other solid waste, are processed for reuse or recycling by conversion into a consumer product or a product which is used as a raw material in a commercial or industrial process. "Materials recovery facility" does not include a facility operated by a pulp or paper mill which utilizes fiber or paper that has been separated from waste for use as a raw material in a commercial product.
(64) "Non-community water system" has the meaning specified in s. NR 809.04 (57). Note: Section NR 809.04 (57) defines "non-community water system" as a public water system that is not a community water system. A non-community water system is either a non-transient non-community water system or a transient non-community water system.
(65) "Nominal diameter" means the inside pipe diameter for pipe sizes 1-inch diameter through 12-inch diameter and means the outside pipe diameter for pipe sizes greater than 12-inch diameter.(66) "Nonpotable" means water supplied for purposes other than human consumption, sanitary use or the preparation of food or pharmaceutical products.(67) "NSF" or "NSF International" means the public health standards and certification organization formerly known as the National Sanitation Foundation. Note: The NSF International headquarters address is PO Box 130140, 789 N. Dixboro Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48113-0140.
(68) "One property" means all contiguous land controlled by one owner, lessee, or any other person having a possessory interest. Lands under single ownership bisected by highways or railroad right-of-ways are considered contiguous.(69) "Outcrop" means bedrock exposed at the ground surface, including roadcuts.(69m) "Packer" means a solid or inflatable seal lowered into a well or drillhole or attached to a casing string to seal off a specific interval within the well or drillhole.(71) "Permit" means a well location or pump installation permit issued by a county authorized to administer ch. NR 812 under ch. NR 845.(72) "Person" means an individual, firm, business, corporation, limited liability corporation, company, association, cooperative, trust institution, partnership, state, public utility, municipality, or federal, state, or interstate agency.(73) "Pit" means any structure that is completely or partially below the ground surface or below a building floor used for the housing of wells, off-set pumps, pressure tanks or valves. Alcoves are pits.(74) "Pitless adapter or unit" means a mechanical device attached to the well casing pipe, usually below the frost level, for underground conveyance of water from the well.(a) "Weld-on pitless adapter" means a pitless adapter attached to a cut opening in the well casing pipe by a weld applied at the well site.(b) "Pitless unit" means a pitless adapter device assembled and pressure tested for leakage at a factory and designed to be attached, in the field, to the top of the cut-off portion of the well casing pipe.(c) "Clamp-on or bolt-on pitless adapter" is a pump installation discharge equipment device having a saddle designed to be attached to cover the outside of an opening that has been cut through the well casing pipe, to allow the saddle to be connected with nuts to the ends of a threaded U-bolt or U-strap that will surround the well casing pipe.(d) "Bolt-through pitless adapter" is a pitless device that includes two gasketed metal segments that are to be attached with a threaded coupling and designed to extend through and plug a hole that has been cut through the polyvinyl chloride or ABS thermoplastic well casing pipe.(e) "Pitless receiver tank" means a pitless unit having a permanently attached steel pressure tank surrounding the casing pipe as an integral part of the unit and installed, as a unit, at a factory.(75) "Potable" or "potable water" means water supplied for human consumption, sanitary use or for the washing or preparation of food or pharmaceutical products. Note: The term "water for human consumption" is used interchangeably with the term "potable water."
(75g) "POWTS" means a private onsite wastewater treatment system. Note: A "POWTS" may include, but is not limited to, a substitute for a septic tank or soil absorption field or a substitute for a holding tank.
(75l) "POWTS component" has the meaning specified in s. SPS 381.01 (183). Note: Section SPS 381.01 (183) defines "POWTS component" as any subsystem, subassembly or other system designed for use in or as part of a private onsite wastewater treatment system which may include treatment, dispersal or holding and related piping.
(75p) "POWTS dispersal component" has the meaning specified in s. SPS 381.01 (184). Note: Section SPS 381.01 (184) defines "POWTS dispersal component" as a device or method that is intended to promote the assimilation of treated wastewater by the environment. The terms "absorption field" and "sewage disposal unit" and "POWTS dispersal unit" have been used in previous versions of this rule to describe these types of units.
(75t) "POWTS holding component" has the meaning specified in s. SPS 381.01 (185). Note: Section SPS 381.01 (185) defines "POWTS holding component" as any receptacle intended to collect wastewater for a period of time, including holding and dosing tanks.
(75x) "POWTS treatment component" has the meaning specified in s. SPS 381.01 (186). Note: Section SPS 381.01 (186) defines "POWTS treatment component" as a device or method that is intended to reduce the contaminant load of wastewater.
(76) "Preparation of food products" means washing, cooling, cooking, pasteurizing, bottling, canning or otherwise preparing food for human consumption and includes the washing of utensils and equipment used in the production or preparation of food.(77) "Pressure or box elbow" means a special concentric pipe fitting used to raise the horizontal pressurized concentric piping arrangement between a well and an off-set pump vertically to the specified elevation above the floor.(77m) "Private on-site wastewater treatment system" has the meaning specified in s. 145.01(12), Stats. Note: Section 145.01(12), Stats., defines "private on-site wastewater treatment system" as a sewage treatment and disposal system serving a single structure with a septic tank and soil absorption field located on the same parcel as the structure. This term also means an alternative sewage system approved by the department including a substitute for the septic tank or soil absorption field, a holding tank, a system serving more than one structure or a system located on a different parcel than the structure. A private on-site wastewater treatment system may be owned by the property owner or by a special purpose district.
(78) "Private water system" means any water system supplying water that is not a public water system.(79) "Privy" means a pit privy as defined in s. SPS 391.03 (6), or a vault privy as defined in s. SPS 391.03 (9). Note: Section SPS 391.03 (6) defines "pit privy" as an enclosed nonportable toilet into which nonwater-carried human wastes are deposited to a subsurface storage chamber that is not watertight. Section SPS 391.03 (9) defines "vault privy" as an enclosed nonportable toilet into which nonwater-carried human wastes are deposited to a subsurface storage chamber that is watertight.
(79e) "Pressure system" means that portion of a pump installation that is upstream of a building control valve or upstream of a pressure tank, including the pressure tank.(79m) "Proposed landfill" means a landfill for which actual notice of the intention to develop the facility has been given to the owners of property located within 1,200 feet of the proposed facility or for which a request has been made under s. 289.22(1m), Stats., provided that a feasibility report under s. 289.23, Stats., is submitted to the department within 2 years after the applicable notice or request. Proposed landfill does not include a facility the department has determined to be not feasible under s. 289.23, Stats., or a facility for which the department has determined that an approval for the facility is not being pursued with reasonable diligence.(79p) "Property transfer well inspection" means an inspection, for compensation, for the purpose of locating or evaluating wells that need to be filled and sealed and water supply wells or pressure systems on real property in contemplation of a transfer of the real property.(79t) "Property transfer well inspector" means an individual authorized under s. NR 812.44 (1) to conduct a property transfer well inspection.(79x) "Psi" means pressure expressed in pounds of force per square inch of area.(80) "Public water system" has the meaning specified in s. NR 809.04 (67). Note: Section NR 809.04 (67) defines "public water system" as a system for the provision to the public of piped water for human consumption through pipes or other constructed conveyances, if the system has at least 15 service connections or regularly serves an average of at least 25 individuals daily at least 60 days out of the year. A public water system is either a "community water system" or a "non-community water system." A public water system:
(a) includes any collection, treatment, storage and distribution facilities under control of the water supplier for the public water system and used primarily in connection with the system; (b) includes any collection or pretreatment storage facilities not under the control of the water supplier for the public water system, which are used primarily in connection with the system; (c) does not include any "special irrigation district."(80m) "Pump installation" means the pump and its associated pressure system including any equipment and material needed to withdraw, obtain, discharge and store water from a well or a spring. The pump installation includes the spring box, reservoir, pump, pump drop pipe, check valves, well cap or seal, pitless adapter, pitless receiver tank, pitless unit, above-ground discharge unit, associated discharge piping and associated connections, valves and appurtenances, pressure tank, sampling faucet, water storage or pressure vessel or structure, the electrical wiring and controls needed to operate the pump or pressure system, and any chemical addition, water treatment device or yard hydrant upstream of the water storage or pressure vessel or building control valve.(81) "Pump installer" means an individual who performs pump installing.(82) "Pump installing" has the meaning specified in s. 280.01(5), Stats., and includes installing, repairing, replacing or reinstalling a: spring box, reservoir, pump, pump drop pipe, check valve, well cap or seal, pitless adapter, pitless receiver tank, pitless unit, above-ground discharge unit, associated discharge piping and associated connections, valves and appurtenances, pressure tank, sampling faucet, water storage or pressure vessel or structure, the electrical wiring and controls needed to operate a pump or pressure system, and any chemical addition, water treatment device or yard hydrant upstream of the water storage or pressure vessel or building control valve; attaching well casing pipe to extend the well casing pipe to a complying height above grade, or up and out of a pit or a subsurface pumproom or alcove; or bailing or chemically conditioning a well to return it to its original capacity, production capability or water quality. Pump installing does not include installation of a temporary test pump by a well driller for the purpose of determining well capacity or water quality and does not include the installation, by a well driller, of a well cap or seal. Opening a well cap or well seal to inspect or chlorinate a well is also not considered pump installing unless the well cap or seal is replaced with a different cap or seal, or unless the well has a hand pump installed on it. Note: Section 280.01(5), Stats., defines "Pump installing" to mean the industry and procedure employed in the placement and preparation for operation of equipment and materials utilized in withdrawing or obtaining water from a well for consumption or use, including all construction involved in making entrance to the well and establishing such seals and safeguards as are necessary to protect such water from contamination.
(83) "Pumping water level" means the elevation of the surface of the water in a well after a period of pumping at a given rate.(84) "Quarry" means an open or surface working in bedrock for the extraction of nonmetallic materials, usually construction stone, including those no longer in operation.(85) "Reconstruction" means modifying the original construction of a well. Reconstruction includes, but is not limited to deepening, lining, installing or replacing a screen, underreaming, hydrofracturing and blasting.(86) "Regional flood" has the meaning specified in s. NR 116.03 (41). Note: Section NR 116.03 (41) defines "regional flood" as a flood determined to be representative of large floods known to have occurred in Wisconsin or which may be expected to occur on a particular lake, river or stream once in every 100 years.
(87) "Reservoir" means a closed structure for storage of water constructed entirely above or partially below the ground surface, including a constructed tank or manufactured water storage vessel.(89) "Salvage yard" or "junkyard" means a site or facility used for storing, processing, wrecking, dismantling, demolition, buying or selling of salvageable materials, scrap, automobile bodies or parts. This term does not include litter or debris scattered along or on a roadway, temporary outdoor storage of junk for limited duration, or smaller accumulations of junk on residential lots for personal use.(90) "Sanitary building drain" has the meaning specified for "building drain, sanitary" in s. SPS 381.01 (41). Note: Section SPS 381.01 (41) defines "building drain, sanitary" as a building drain which conveys wastewater consisting in part of domestic wastewater.
(91) "Sanitary building sewer" has the meaning specified for "building sewer, sanitary" in s. SPS 381.01 (45). Note: Section SPS 381.01 (45) defines "building sewer, sanitary" as a building sewer which conveys wastewater consisting in part of domestic wastewater.
(92) "Sanitary collector sewer" means a sanitary sewer serving 2 or more sanitary building sewers.(93) "Sanitary condition" means, when referring to a well, reservoir, or spring:(a) That the construction of the well, reservoir or spring and the installation of the pumping equipment are such that the well, reservoir or spring is effectively protected against entrance of surface contamination, and(b) That the location and the surrounding area are free from debris or filth of any character and not subject to flooding.(94) "School" has the meaning specified in 42 USC 300j-21(6). "School" does not include athletic fields, school forests, environmental centers, home-based schools, and Sunday schools. Note:42 USC 300j-21(6) defines "school" as any elementary school or secondary school as defined in section 7801 of Title 20 and any kindergarten or day care facility.
(94b) "School well" means a well serving a school.(94g) "Scrap metal processing facility" means a facility at which machinery or equipment, or both, are used for the processing and manufacturing of iron, steel or nonferrous metallic scrap into prepared grades and whose principal product is scrap iron, scrap steel or nonferrous scrap for sale for resmelting purposes.(94r) "Septage" has the meaning specified in s. NR 113.03 (55). Note: Section NR 113.03 (55) defines "septage" as the wastewater or contents of septic or holding tanks, dosing chambers, grease interceptors, seepage beds, seepage pits, seepage trenches, privies or portable restrooms.
(95) "Septic tank" has the meaning specified in s. NR 113.03 (56). Note: Section NR 113.03 (56) defines "septic tank" as a tank which receives and partially treats sewage through processes of sedimentation, oxidation, flotation and bacterial action so as to separate solids from the liquid in the sewage and discharges the liquid to a soil absorption system.
(96g) "Sludge" has the meaning in s. NR 500.03 (212). Note: Section NR 500.03 (212) defines "sludge" as 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.
(96m) "Sodium bentonite" means a clay formed from the decomposition and recrystallization of volcanic ash and is largely composed of the clay mineral montmorillonite (Na.33 (Al 1.67Mg.33) Si 4O 10 (OH) 2), commonly referred to as "western" or "Wyoming" bentonite, and has extensive ability to absorb water and swell to many times its original volume.(97) "Soil absorption unit" means an absorption field, dry well, seepage bed, seepage pit, seepage mound or seepage trench designed for the disposal of wastewater effluent or clear water wastes by soil absorption. Soil absorption unit includes units both regulated and not regulated by ch. SPS 383 and units abandoned within 3 years.(97m) "Solid waste processing facility" has the meaning specified for "processing facility" in s. NR 500.03 (181). Note: Section NR 500.03 (181) defines "processing facility" as a solid waste facility at which solid waste is baled, shredded, pulverized, composted, classified, separated, combusted or otherwise treated or altered by some means to facilitate further transfer, processing, utilization or disposal. Processing facilities do not include operations conducted by scrap metal, paper, fiber or plastic processors which are excluded from the definition of "solid waste facilities" in this section.
(97r) "Solid waste storage facility" has the meaning specified for "storage facility" in s. NR 500.03 (224). Note: Section NR 500.03 (224) defines "storage facility" as 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.
(98) "Solid waste transfer facility" has the meaning specified for "transfer facility" in s. NR 500.03 (238). Note: Section NR 500.03 (238) defines "transfer facility" as 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.
(99) "Special well casing depth area" means an area established by the department requiring greater depth of well casing pipe, sampling or other stringent well or drillhole construction methods because of contamination. Note: A list of established special well casing depth areas is available on the department's website at dnr.wi.gov.
(101) "Spring" means a place where groundwater flows naturally from rock or soil onto the land surface or into a body of water.(102) "Standard dimension ratio" means the ratio of average outside pipe diameter to minimum pipe wall thickness.(103) "Static water level" means the level of the surface of the water in a well or water pressure at the top of a well, when no water flows or is being pumped. For flowing wells with a positive water pressure at the top of the well, the static water elevation is determined either by a stilling pipe or pressure gauge. Water levels are referenced to the elevation of the top of the well or the established ground surface at the well.(106) "Storm sewer" means a buried pipe designed or used for collecting or conveying storm water.(107) "Subsoil drain" means that part of a drain system that conveys groundwater to a point of discharge or dispersal.(108) "Sump" means a tank or pit that receives wastewater that must be emptied by mechanical means.(108r) "Surface water" means all water which is open to the atmosphere and subject to surface runoff.(109) "Surge tank" means a tank into which overflow from a flowing well, spring or other water source is discharged and is repumped to a pressure tank or the water system.(110) "Telescoping method" means a method for setting a well screen where the well casing pipe is driven to the proposed screen setting depth and the well casing pipe is then pulled back to expose the screen. A packer is used to seal the annulus between the top of the screen and the bottom of the well casing pipe.(110m) "Temporary manure stack" means solid manure only, piled for no more than 120 days within any one year period.(110s) "Temporary outer casing" means a string of casing pipe that is driven, turned or placed from the ground surface into the surficial geological formation or formations as part of the process of constructing an upper enlarged drillhole and which is not intended to be left in place as a permanent well casing pipe.(111) "Top of bedrock" means the top of firm rock as determined by a change in the action of the drilling machine or a change in the type and size of the drill cuttings. The presence of bedrock shall be indicated when a majority of the drill cuttings 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 in sand.(111m) "Treatment pond" means a structure that is used for the treatment or storage of liquid waste. Treatment pond includes absorption, retention, storage and treatment ponds or lagoons.(112g) "Unconsolidated formation" means geological materials composed of clay, silt, sand, gravel, or cobbles that are not bedrock, and includes alluvium, glacial drift, glacial outwash, glacial till, lacustrine deposits, loess, and saprolite.(112k) "Upper enlarged drillhole" means a drillhole larger in diameter than the well casing pipe.(112m) "Upstream" means, with respect to the pump installation discharge and pressure system, in a direction back towards the well. Note: In previous versions of this rule the term "prior to" was used in lieu of the term "upstream."
(112p) "Valve pit" means a pit that contains only piping and valves. Valve pits do not contain pressure tanks.(112q) "Variance" means a department approval to construct or install a water system or a portion of a water system in a manner not in strict compliance with the requirements of this chapter.(112v) "Vegetated treatment area," formerly known as "filter strip," means a component of an agricultural waste management system that is an area or strip of herbaceous vegetation designed and constructed to Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Standard 635 specifications, located adjacent to an animal barn, animal barn pen, animal shelter, animal yard or a manure storage facility and which is intended to improve water quality by reducing pollutants associated with animal manure and other agricultural wastewater runoff.(114) "Walkout basement" means a basement with the floor at ground grade level on at least one side of the structure.(115) "Wastewater" means any water carrying wastes created in and conducted away from residences, industrial establishments and public buildings with ground or surface water which may be present including any liquid wastes except clear water wastes.(116) "Wastewater treatment plant" has the meaning specified in s. NR 114.52 (22). Note: Section NR 114.52 (22) defines "wastewater treatment plant" as a facility that provides for the treatment of sanitary or industrial wastewater or both.
(116m) "Wastewater treatment plant well" means a well serving a wastewater treatment plant.(117) "Water supply" means the sources, wells, pumps and intake and storage structures from which water is supplied for any purpose.(118) "Water system" means the water supply, storage, treatment facilities and all structures and piping by which water is provided for any purpose.(119) "Well" has the meaning specified in s. 281.34(1) (h), Stats. Note: Section 281.34(1) (h), Stats., defines "well" as any drillhole or other excavation or opening deeper than it is wide that extends more than 10 feet below the ground surface and is constructed for the purpose of obtaining groundwater.
(119g) "Well and pressure system" means the water supply and pump installation upstream of a building control valve or pressure tank and including any pressure tank.(120) "Well cap or seal" means an approved apparatus or device used to cover the top of a well casing pipe.(121) "Well casing pipe" means pipe meeting standards specified in s. NR 812.11.(122) "Well constructor" means any person that constructs a well which is not required to be constructed by a licensed individual water well driller or a registered water well drilling business.(123) "Well driller" means an individual who performs well drilling.(124) "Well drilling" has the meaning specified in s. 280.01(8), Stats., and includes any activity that requires the use of a well drilling rig or similar equipment, or any activity conducted using a well drilling rig or similar equipment with the exception of the driving of points having pipe or casing smaller than three inches in diameter. Well drilling also includes constructing a well or performing any activity that changes the characteristics of a drilled well including constructing, reconstructing or deepening a well, sealing the annular space of a well, joining or welding together lengths of well casing pipe or liner pipe, installation of a liner, installing or replacing a screen, well rehabilitation, hydrofracturing, blasting, and chemical conditioning. Attaching well casing pipe to the upper portion of a well to extend the well out of a pit is not considered well drilling. Note: Section 280.01(8), Stats., defines "Well drilling" to mean the industry and procedure employed in obtaining groundwater from a well by digging, boring, drilling, driving or other methods but not including the driving of points for the purpose of obtaining ground water. It shall also include all construction work and installation of well casings in said well involved therein for the protection of such well water against pollution.
(124m) "Well notification" means a notice provided to the department in accordance with s. 281.34(3), Stats.(126) "Well vent" means a screened opening in a well seal to allow atmospheric pressure to be maintained in the well.(127) "Well yield" means the quantity of water which may flow or be pumped from the well per unit of time.Wis. Admin. Code Department of Natural Resources NR 812.07
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