Section 845.08. County personnel.

 

(1)   Work hours. The administrator, a trained county inspector or county office staff shall be available at the administrator's office for answering questions regarding permit applications and for accepting applications for well location or pump installation permits for a minimum of 4 regularly scheduled hours each working day.

(2)   Trained county inspectors.

(a) Any county employee conducting inspections is required to attend initial training sessions and pass an examination related to the delegation level at which her or his county is authorized. Examinations and training will relate to ch. NR 812 requirements, the technical aspects of well location, pump installation, existing private water systems and private well construction and water quality. Only county personnel who have attended the initial training sessions and successfully passed the department's examination for her or his county delegation level or levels and has not violated the provisions of sub. (2) (b) , (c) and (d) may conduct private water system inspections. Counties shall consult with the department for temporary exceptions to the training session and examination requirements for county inspectors. Inspectors shall be titled as follows: Level 1 - Well location inspector; Level 2 - Pump installation inspector; Level 3 - Private water systems inspector; Level 4 - Well construction inspector; and Level 5 - well and drillhole abandonment inspector.

(b) A county inspector may not grant variances.

(c) A county inspector may not issue permits that result in noncompliance with ch. 280 , Stats. , ch. NR 812 or the county ordinance.

(d) A county inspector shall attend continuing education classes conducted by or approved by the department. The annual department audit evaluation shall include a determination of whether the inspector granted any variances or issued any permits that resulted in noncompliance. Such action by an inspector may be cause for departmental reexamination of the inspector.

(e) All inspectors shall be trained to adequately conduct inspections commensurate with a county's authorized delegation level for levels 1 to 3 and 5. In counties with delegation level 4, one or more inspectors shall be trained to do level 4 inspections and shall be the only inspectors conducting level 4 inspections.

History: Cr. Register, January, 1987, No. 373 , eff. 2-1-87; am. (2) (a) and (e), Register, February, 1991, No. 422 , eff. 3-1-91; renum. from NR 145.08 and am., Register, August, 1995, No. 476 , eff. 9-1-95; correction in (2) (c) made under s. 13.93 (2m) (b) 7., Stats., Register, April, 2000, No. 532 .

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The department recommends that counties authorized for delegation level 2, 3 or 4 employ registered sanitarians to perform pump installation inspections. Microsoft Windows NT 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1