Wis. Admin. Code Department of Natural Resources NR 851.11
In this chapter:
Note: Section 281.346 (1) (d), Stats., reads as follows: "Community within a straddling county" means any city, village, or town that is not a straddling community and that is located outside the Great Lakes basin but wholly within a county that lies partly within the Great Lakes basin.
Note: Section 281.346 (1) (e), Stats., reads as follows: "Consumptive use" means a use of water that results in the loss of or failure to return some or all of the water to the basin from which the water is withdrawn due to evaporation, incorporation into products, or other processes.
Note: Section 281.346 (1) (h), Stats., reads as follows: "Diversion" means a transfer of water from the Great Lakes basin into a watershed outside the Great Lakes basin, or from the watershed of one of the Great Lakes into that of another, by any means of transfer, including a pipeline, canal, tunnel, aqueduct, channel, modification of the direction of a water course, tanker ship, tanker truck, or rail tanker except that "diversion" does not include any of the following:
Note: A copy of the Great Lakes basin boundary dataset is available as the `Major Basins' layer in the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources GIS Open Data Portal, available at https://data-wi-dnr.opendata.arcgis.com.
Note: Section 281.346 (1) (jj), Stats., reads as follows: "Great Lakes council" means the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Council, created under s. 281.343 (2) (a).
Note: The Great Lakes council is comprised of the Great Lake Governors, or their designees, who consult and coordinate with the Premiers of Ontario, Quebec, and the Great-Lakes St. Lawrence River Water Resources Regional Body to protect the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River.
Note: Section 281.346 (1) (jm), Stats., reads as follows: "Intrabasin transfer" means the transfer of water from the watershed of one of the Great Lakes into the watershed of another of the Great Lakes.
Note: Section 281.346 (1) (nm), Stats., reads as follows: Notwithstanding s. 281.01 (9), "Person" means an individual or other entity, including a government or nongovernmental organization, including any scientific, professional, business, nonprofit, or public interest organization or association that is neither affiliated with nor under the direction of a government.
Note: Section 281.346 (1) (pm), Stats., reads as follows: "Public water supply" means water distributed to the public through a physically connected system of treatment, storage, and distribution facilities that serve a group of largely residential customers and that may also serve industrial, commercial, and other institutional customers.
Note: Section 281.346 (1) (ps), Stats., reads as follows: "Reasonable water supply alternative" means a water supply alternative that is similar in cost to, and as environmentally sustainable and protective of public health as, the proposed new or increased diversion and that does not have a greater adverse environmental impact than the proposed new or increased diversion.
Note: Section 281.346 (1) (q), Stats., reads as follows: "Regional body" means the body consisting of the governors of the parties and the premiers of Ontario and Quebec, Canada, or their designees as established by the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence River Basin Sustainable Water Resources Agreement.
Note: Section NR 110.03 (29t) reads as follows: "Sewer service area" means that area served or anticipated to be served by a sewage collection system.
Note: Section 281.346 (1) (r), Stats., reads as follows: "Source watershed" means the watershed from which a withdrawal originates. If water is withdrawn directly from a Great Lake or from the St. Lawrence River, then the source watershed is the watershed of that Great Lake or the watershed of the St. Lawrence River, respectively. If water is withdrawn from the watershed of a stream that is a direct tributary to a Great Lake or a direct tributary to the St. Lawrence River, then the source watershed is the watershed of that Great Lake or the watershed of the St. Lawrence River, respectively.
Note: Section 281.346 (1) (t), Stats., reads as follows: "Straddling community" means any city, village, or town that, based on its boundary existing as of the compact's effective date [December 8, 2008], is partly within the Great Lakes basin or partly within the watersheds of 2 of the Great Lakes and that is wholly within any county that lies partly or completely within the Great Lakes basin.
Note: Section 281.346 (1) (tm), Stats., reads as follows: "Straddling county" means a county that lies partly within the Great Lakes basin.
Note: Section 281.346 (1) (u), Stats., reads as follows: "Technical review" means a thorough analysis and evaluation conducted to determine whether a proposal that is subject to regional review under this section meets the criteria for approval under [s. 281.346 (4), (5), or (6), Stats].
Note: Section 281.346 (1) (wm), Stats., reads as follows: "Water loss" means the amount of water that is withheld from or not returned to the basin from which it is withdrawn as a result of a diversion or consumptive use or both.
Note: Section 281.01 (18), Stats., reads as follows: "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.
Note: Section 281.346 (1) (y), Stats., reads as follows: "Withdraw" means to take water from surface water or groundwater.
Wis. Admin. Code Department of Natural Resources NR 851.11
Section 281.346 (1) (z), Stats., reads as follows: "Withdrawal" means the taking of water from surface water or groundwater, including the taking of surface water or groundwater for the purpose of bottling the water.