2011 Wisconsin Code
Chapter 160. Groundwater protection standards.
160.255 Exceptions for private sewage systems.

160.255

160.255 Exceptions for private sewage systems.

160.255(1)

(1) In this section, "private sewage system" has the meaning given in s. 145.01 (12).

160.255(2)

(2) Notwithstanding s. 160.19 (1), (2) and (4) (b), a regulatory agency is not required to promulgate or amend rules that define design or management criteria for private sewage systems to minimize the amount of nitrate in groundwater or to maintain compliance with the preventive action limit for nitrate.

160.255(3)

(3) Notwithstanding s. 160.19 (3), a regulatory agency may promulgate rules that define design or management criteria for private sewage systems that permit the enforcement standard for nitrate to be attained or exceeded at the point of standards application.

160.255(4)

(4) Notwithstanding s. 160.21, a regulatory agency is not required to promulgate rules that set forth responses that the agency may take, or require to be taken, when the preventive action limit or enforcement standard for nitrate is attained or exceeded at the point of standards application if the source of the nitrate is a private sewage system.

160.255(5)

(5) Notwithstanding ss. 160.23 and 160.25, a regulatory agency is not required to take any responses for a specific site at which the preventive action limit or enforcement standard for nitrate is attained or exceeded at the point of standards application if the source of the nitrate is a private sewage system.

160.255 - ANNOT.

History: 1995 a. 27.