281.16 Water quality protection; nonpoint sources.
281.165 Compliance with water quality standards for wetlands.
281.17 Water quality and quantity; specific regulations.
281.20 Orders; nonpoint source pollution.
SUBCHAPTER III
WATER QUALITY AND QUANTITY;
GENERAL REGULATIONS
281.31 Navigable waters protection law.
281.33 Construction site erosion control and storm water management.
281.34 Groundwater withdrawals.
281.343 Great Lakes — St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact.
281.344 Water conservation, reporting, and supply regulation; when compact is not in effect.
281.346 Water conservation, reporting, and supply regulation; after the compact takes effect.
281.348 Water supply service area plans for public water supply systems.
281.35 Water resources conservation and management.
281.36 Permits for discharges into wetlands; mitigation.
281.37 Wetland mitigation grant program.
SUBCHAPTER IV
WATER AND SEWAGE FACILITIES; SEPTAGE DISPOSAL
281.41 Approval of plans.
281.43 Joint sewerage systems.
281.45 House connections.
281.47 Sewage drains; sewage discharge into certain lakes.
281.48 Servicing septic tanks, soil absorption fields, holding tanks, grease interceptors and privies.
281.49 Disposal of septage in municipal sewage systems.
SUBCHAPTER V
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
281.51 Financial assistance program; local water quality planning.
281.53 Municipal clean drinking water grants.
281.55 Financial assistance program.
281.56 Financial assistance program; sewerage systems.
281.57 Financial assistance program; point source pollution abatement.
281.58 Clean water fund program; financial assistance.
281.59 Environmental improvement fund; financial management.
281.605 Outstanding loans under the former land recycling loan program.
281.61 Safe drinking water loan program.
281.62 Other drinking water quality activities.
281.625 Drinking water loan guarantee program.
281.63 Financial assistance program; combined sewer overflow abatement.
281.65 Financial assistance; nonpoint source water pollution abatement.
281.66 Urban nonpoint source water pollution abatement and storm water management program.
281.665 Municipal flood control and riparian restoration program.
281.67 Watershed projects.
281.68 Lake management planning grants and lake monitoring and protection contracts.
281.69 Lake management and classification grants and contracts.
281.695 Aids to municipalities for prevention and abatement of water pollution.
281.70 River protection grants.
281.71 Lake management project grants; river protection grants; purchases.
281.72 River protection; contracts with nonprofit organizations.
SUBCHAPTER VI
COMPENSATION
281.75 Compensation for well contamination and abandonment.
281.77 Damage to water supplies.
SUBCHAPTER VII
GREAT LAKES REMEDIAL ACTION
281.83 Remedial action in the Great Lakes and their tributaries.
281.85 Great Lakes protection fund share.
281.87 Great Lakes contaminated sediment removal.
SUBCHAPTER VIII
GENERAL PROVISIONS; ENFORCEMENT
281.91 State agency personnel to report water pollution.
281.93 Hearings on certain water use actions.
281.94 Investigation of alleged water withdrawal violations.
281.95 Remedies; water withdrawal violations.
281.96 Visitorial powers of department.
281.97 Records; inspection.
281.99 Administrative forfeitures for safe drinking water violations.
DEFINITIONS
281.01
281.01
Definitions. In this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:
281.01(3)
(3) “Department" means the department of natural resources.
281.01(4)
(4) “Garbage" means discarded materials resulting from the handling, processing, storage and consumption of food.
281.01(5)
(5) “Industrial wastes" includes liquid or other wastes resulting from any process of industry, manufacture, trade or business or the development of any natural resource.
281.01(6)
(6) “Municipality" means any city, town, village, county, county utility district, town sanitary district, public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district or metropolitan sewage district.
281.01(7)
(7) “Other wastes" includes all other substances, except industrial wastes and sewage, which pollute any of the surface waters of the state. The term also includes unnecessary siltation resulting from operations such as the washing of vegetables or raw food products, gravel washing, stripping of lands for development of subdivisions, highways, quarries and gravel pits, mine drainage, cleaning of vehicles or barges or gross neglect of land erosion.
281.01(8)
(8) “Owner" means the state, county, town, town sanitary district, city, village, metropolitan sewerage district, corporation, firm, company, institution or individual owning or operating any water supply, sewerage or water system or sewage and refuse disposal plant.
281.01(9)
(9) “Person" means an individual, owner, operator, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, municipality, interstate agency, state agency or federal agency.
281.01(10)
(10) “Pollution" includes contaminating or rendering unclean or impure the waters of the state, or making the same injurious to public health, harmful for commercial or recreational use, or deleterious to fish, bird, animal or plant life.
281.01(11)
(11) “Refuse" means all matters produced from industrial or community life, subject to decomposition, not defined as sewage.
281.01(12)
(12) “Secretary" means the secretary of natural resources.
281.01(13)
(13) “Sewage" means the water-carried wastes created in and to be conducted away from residences, industrial establishments, and public buildings as defined in s.
101.01 (12), with such surface water or groundwater as may be present.
281.01(14)
(14) “Sewerage system" means all structures, conduits and pipe lines by which sewage is collected and disposed of, except plumbing inside and in connection with buildings served, and service pipes from building to street main.
281.01(15)
(15) “Solid waste" means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility and other discarded or salvageable materials, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous materials resulting from industrial, commercial, mining and agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include solids or dissolved material in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges which are point sources subject to permits under ch.
283, or source material, as defined in s.
254.31 (10), special nuclear material, as defined in s.
254.31 (11), or by-product material, as defined in s.
254.31 (1).
281.01(16)
(16) “System or plant" includes water and sewerage systems and sewage and refuse disposal plants.
