Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Natural Resources › NR 800 - Environmental Protection - Water Supply › Chapter NR 854 - Water Supply Service Area Plans › Section NR 854.03 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
In this chapter:
(1) "Areawide water quality planning agency"
				means an agency designated by the governor to prepare an areawide water quality
				management plan under ch. NR 121.
(2) "Consecutive water system" has the
				meaning specified under s.  NR 809.04 (11).
(3) "Cost-effectiveness analysis" has the
				meaning specified under s. 281.348 (1) (b), Stats.
(4) "Department" means the department of
				natural resources.
(5) "Diversion"
				has the meaning specified under s. 281.346 (1) (h), Stats.
(6) "Great Lakes basin" means the watershed
				of the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River upstream from Trois-Rivieres,
				Quebec, within the jurisdiction of the parties. The boundary of the Great Lakes
				basin is derived from the subbasin (8-digit) 4th level hydrologic units from
				the digital Watershed Boundary Dataset for the State of Wisconsin, consisting
				of geo-referenced digital data and associated attributes created in accordance
				with the "FGDC Proposal, Version 1.0 - Federal Standards for Delineation of
				Hydrologic Unit Boundaries 3/01/02."
Note:
A copy of the Great Lakes basin boundary
				  dataset is available as the "Major Basins" layer in the Wisconsin Department of
				  Natural Resources GIS Open Data Portal, available at
https://data-wi-dnr.opendata.arcgis.com
.
(7) "Great Lakes council" has the
				meaning specified under s. 281.348 (1) (cm), Stats.
(8) "New or increased withdrawal" means a
				proposal for a new withdrawal or a proposal to increase the amount of a
				withdrawal over the permitted withdrawal amount that requires department
				approval under s. 281.346 (4g), (4s), or (5), Stats., for a water use general
				permit or individual permit.
(9)
				"Non-revenue water" has the meaning specified under s.  PSC 185.85 (1)
				(c).
(10) "Peak daily withdrawal"
				means a public water supply system's highest daily water withdrawal in a
				year.
(11) "Person" has the meaning
				specified under s. 281.346 (1) (nm), Stats.
(12) "Planning period" means the period
				covered by the water supply service area plan.
(13) "Population" means the population of a
				specified area as shown by the last federal census or by any subsequent
				population estimate under s. 16.96, Stats.
(14) "Projected growth area" means the area
				in which the public water supply system anticipates providing water to the
				public during the period covered by the water supply service area
				plan.
(15) "Projected water demand"
				means the total water demand forecasted in the public water supply system's
				existing service area, the public water supply system's projected growth area
				over the planning period, and any water sold to consecutive water
				systems.
(16) "Public water supply"
				has the meaning specified under s. 281.348 (1) (d), Stats.
(17) "Public water supply system" means a
				physically connected system of treatment, storage, and distribution facilities
				that distributes public water supply that is treated for human consumption and
				that is owned by a city, village, county, town, town sanitary district, utility
				district, public inland lake and rehabilitation district, or municipal water
				district, joint local water authorities, or a privately owned water utility
				serving any of these entities.
(18)
				"Retail customer" means a person who purchases water directly from a public
				water supply system, except a consecutive water system.
(19) "Schematic" means a diagram that
				represents the elements of a public water supply system using general locations
				and graphic symbols rather than scaled maps.
(20)
(a)
				"Source" means an individual location where water is withdrawn from groundwater
				or surface water.
(b) "Source" may
				include a well, spring, lake, river, or pond.