Section NR 854.03 - Definitions In this chapter:
(1) "Areawide water quality planning agency" means an agency designated by the governor to prepare an areawide water quality management plan under ch. NR 121.(2) "Consecutive water system" has the meaning specified under s. NR 809.04 (11).(3) "Cost-effectiveness analysis" has the meaning specified under s. 281.348 (1) (b), Stats.(4) "Department" means the department of natural resources.(5) "Diversion" has the meaning specified under s. 281.346 (1) (h), Stats.(6) "Great Lakes basin" means the watershed of the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River upstream from Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, within the jurisdiction of the parties. The boundary of the Great Lakes basin is derived from the subbasin (8-digit) 4th level hydrologic units from the digital Watershed Boundary Dataset for the State of Wisconsin, consisting of geo-referenced digital data and associated attributes created in accordance with the "FGDC Proposal, Version 1.0 - Federal Standards for Delineation of Hydrologic Unit Boundaries 3/01/02." 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.
(7) "Great Lakes council" has the meaning specified under s. 281.348 (1) (cm), Stats.(8) "New or increased withdrawal" means a proposal for a new withdrawal or a proposal to increase the amount of a withdrawal over the permitted withdrawal amount that requires department approval under s. 281.346 (4g), (4s), or (5), Stats., for a water use general permit or individual permit.(9) "Non-revenue water" has the meaning specified under s. PSC 185.85 (1) (c).(10) "Peak daily withdrawal" means a public water supply system's highest daily water withdrawal in a year.(11) "Person" has the meaning specified under s. 281.346 (1) (nm), Stats.(12) "Planning period" means the period covered by the water supply service area plan.(13) "Population" means the population of a specified area as shown by the last federal census or by any subsequent population estimate under s. 16.96, Stats.(14) "Projected growth area" means the area in which the public water supply system anticipates providing water to the public during the period covered by the water supply service area plan.(15) "Projected water demand" means the total water demand forecasted in the public water supply system's existing service area, the public water supply system's projected growth area over the planning period, and any water sold to consecutive water systems.(16) "Public water supply" has the meaning specified under s. 281.348 (1) (d), Stats.(17) "Public water supply system" means a physically connected system of treatment, storage, and distribution facilities that distributes public water supply that is treated for human consumption and that is owned by a city, village, county, town, town sanitary district, utility district, public inland lake and rehabilitation district, or municipal water district, joint local water authorities, or a privately owned water utility serving any of these entities.(18) "Retail customer" means a person who purchases water directly from a public water supply system, except a consecutive water system.(19) "Schematic" means a diagram that represents the elements of a public water supply system using general locations and graphic symbols rather than scaled maps.(20)(a) "Source" means an individual location where water is withdrawn from groundwater or surface water.(b) "Source" may include a well, spring, lake, river, or pond.(21) "Straddling community" has the meaning specified under s. 281.346 (1) (t), Stats.(22) "Total resources costs" has the meaning specified under s. 281.348 (1) (e), Stats.(23) "Water supply service area" means an area in which the public water supply system provides water or may provide water to the public during the planning period covered by the water supply service area plan.(24) "Water supply service area plan" or "plan" means a document developed in compliance with this chapter.(25) "Waters of the state" has the meaning specified under s. 281.01 (18), Stats.(26) "Well" has the meaning specified under s. 281.34 (1) (h), Stats.(27) "Withdraw" has the meaning specified under s. 281.348 (1) (f), Stats.(28) "Withdrawal" has the meaning specified under s. 281.348 (1) (g), Stats.Wis. Admin. Code Department of Natural Resources NR 854.03
Adopted by, CR 23-049: cr. Register June 2024 No. 822, eff. 7-1-24; correction in (17) made under s. 35.17, Stats., Register June 24 No. 822, eff. 7/1/2024