Section 200.02. Definitions.

  For the purpose of this chapter the following definitions are applicable:

(1)  "Business days" means each day except Saturday; Sunday; January 1; the third Monday in January, which shall be the day of celebration for January 15; the last Monday in May, which shall be the day of celebration for May 30; July 4; the first Monday in September; the 4th Thursday in November; December 24; December 25; December 31; and the day following if January 1, July 4 or December 25 falls on Sunday.

(2)  "Cooling water" means water which has been used primarily for cooling but which may be contaminated with process waste or airborne material. Examples are the discharge from barometric condensers or the blowdown from cooling towers.

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

(4)  "Discharge of pollutant" or "discharge of pollutants" means any addition of any pollutant to the waters of this state from any point source, including the land application of sludge.

(5)  "Limit of detection" means the lowest concentration level that can be determined to be statistically different from a blank.

(6)  "Limit of quantitation" means the level above which quantitative results may be obtained with a specified degree of confidence.

(7)  "Major municipal discharge" means a point source discharge with an average daily volume equal to or greater than one million gallons per day of either municipal wastewater from a publicly owned treatment works or of domestic wastewater from a privately owned treatment works.

(8)  "Minor municipal discharge" means a point source discharge with an average daily volume less than one million gallons per day of either municipal wastewater from a publicly owned treatment works or domestic wastewater from a privately owned treatment works.

(9)  "Municipality" means any city, town, village, county, county utility district, town sanitary district, town utility district, school district or metropolitan sewage district or any other public entity created pursuant to law and having authority to collect, treat or dispose of sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes.

(10)  "Noncontact cooling water" means water used for cooling which does not come into contact with any raw material, intermediate or finished product, or waste and has been used in heat exchangers, air or refrigeration compressors, or other cooling means where contamination with process waste is not normally expected.

(11)  "Permit" means a permit for the discharge of pollutants issued by this department.

(12)  "Person" means an individual, owner or operator, corporation, partnership, association, municipality, interstate agency, state agency, or federal agency.

(13)  "Point source" means any discernible, confined and discrete conveyance, including but not limited to any pipe, outfall, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated animal feeding operation or vessel or other floating craft from which pollutants may be discharged either into the waters of this state or into a publicly owned treatment works, except for a conveyance that conveys only storm water.

(14)  "Pollutant" means any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, refuse, oil, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive substance, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste discharged into water.

(15)  "Primary industry" means an industrial facility or activity that is encompassed by one of the industrial categories listed in 40 CFR 122 , Appendix A.

(16)  "Results" includes measurements, determinations and information obtained or derived from tests.

(17)  "Secondary industry" means an industrial facility or activity that is not classified as a primary industry. 

(18)  "Surface waters" means waters of the state except wells and other groundwater. Cooling lakes, farm ponds and facilities constructed for the treatment of wastewaters are also excluded from this definition.

(19)  "Treatment works" means any devices and systems used in the storage, treatment, recycling, and reclamation of municipal sewage, sewage sludge or industrial waste of a liquid nature or necessary to recycle or reuse water at the most economical cost over the estimated life of the work, including intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, sewage collection systems, cooling towers and ponds, pumping, power and other equipment, and their appurtenances; extensions, improvements, remodeling, additions, and alterations thereof; elements essential to provide a reliable recycled supply such as standby treatment units and clear well facilities; and any works, including site acquisition of the land that will be an integral part of the treatment process or is used for ultimate disposal of residues resulting from such treatment. Additionally, "treatment work" means any other method or system for preventing, abating, reducing, storing, treating, separating or disposing of municipal waste, including storm water runoff, or industrial waste, including waste in combined storm water and sanitary sewer systems.

(20)  "Waters of the state" means those portions of Lake Michigan and Lake Superior within the boundaries of Wisconsin, all lakes, bays, rivers, streams, springs, ponds, wells, impounding reservoirs, marshes, water courses, drainage systems and other surface or groundwater, natural or artificial, public or private within the state or under its jurisdiction, except those waters which are entirely confined and retained completely upon the property of a person.

History: Cr. Register, May, 1985, No. 353 , eff. 6-1-85; am. (3) and (9), Register, December, 1995, No. 480 , eff. 1-1-96; am. (1), renum. (2) to (10) to be (3), (4), (9), (11), (12), (13), (14), (19) and (20) and am. (13), cr. (2), (5) to (8), (10) and (15) to (18), Register, November, 1999, No. 527 , eff. 12-1-99.

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