Section 664.0095. Point of standards application.

 

(1)  The department shall specify in the facility license the point of standards application at which the groundwater protection standard of s. NR 664.0092 applies and at which monitoring shall be conducted. The point of standards application is a vertical surface located at the hydraulically downgradient limit of the waste management area that extends down into the uppermost aquifer underlying the regulated units.

(2)  The waste management area is the limit projected in the horizontal plane of the area on which waste will be placed during the active life of a regulated unit.

(a) The waste management area includes horizontal space taken up by any liner, dike or other barrier designed to contain waste in a regulated unit.

(b) If the facility contains more than one regulated unit, an imaginary line circumscribing the several regulated units describes the waste management area.

History: CR 05-032 : cr. Register July 2006 No. 607 , eff. 8-1-06.