Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Natural Resources › NR 200-299 - Environmental Protection - Wisconsin Pollutant Discharge Elimination System › Chapter NR 213 - Lining Of Industrial Lagoons And Design Of Storage Structures › Subchapter I - General › Section NR 213.04 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
The following definitions apply to the terms used in this
					 chapter. Definitions of other terms and meanings of abbreviations are set forth
					 in ch. NR 205.
(1) "ASTM" means the
				  American Society for Testing and Materials. Copies of ASTM standards referenced
				  in this chapter are available for inspection at the offices of the department
				  of natural resources, the secretary of state's office and the office of the
				  revisor of statutes. ASTM standards may be obtained from the American Society
				  for Testing and Materials, 1916 Race Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103.
(2) "Base course" means the layer or layers
				  of specified or selected material of designed thickness placed on a subbase or
				  subgrade to support a surface course.
(3) "Bedrock" means the rocks that underlie
				  soil material or are at the earth's surface which are encountered when the
				  weathered in-place consolidated material, larger than 2 mm in size, is greater
				  than 50% by volume.
(4) "By-product
				  solids" means waste solid products, including but not limited to cuttings or
				  peelings generated at processing facilities, fresh or actively fermenting sweet
				  corn silage, other food wastes and paunch manure.
(5) "Coefficient of permeability" means the
				  rate of discharge of water under laminar flow conditions, through a unit
				  cross-sectional area of porous medium, under a unit hydraulic gradient and
				  standard temperature.
(6)
				  "Community public water supply system" means a water supply system having at
				  least 15 service connections used by year-round residents or regularly serving
				  at least 25 year-round residents. Any water supply system serving 7 or more
				  homes, 10 or more mobile homes, 10 or more apartment units, or 10 or more
				  condominium units shall be considered a community public water supply system
				  unless information is available to indicate that 25 year-round residents will
				  not be served.
(7) "Detrimental
				  effect" means contamination of the lands or waters of the state, or making the
				  same injurious to public health, harmful for commercial or agricultural use, or
				  deleterious to animal or plant life.
(8) "Floodway" has the meaning specified
				  under ch. NR 116.
(9) "Groundwater"
				  means any of the waters of the state, as defined in s.
				  281.01(18),
				  Stats., occurring in a saturated subsurface geological formation of rock or
				  soil.
(10) "Groundwater monitoring"
				  means measuring the groundwater level and analyzing samples of water taken from
				  the ground.
(11) "Lagoon" means a
				  natural or human-made containment structure, constructed primarily of earthen
				  materials and used for the treatment or storage of industrial, commercial or
				  agricultural wastewater, biological fermentation leachates or sludge.
(12) "Pavement structure" means the
				  combination of subbase, base and surface courses placed on a
				  subgrade.
(13) "Potable water
				  supply well" means a well supplying water for human consumption, sanitary use
				  or food product preparation.
(14)
				  "Storage structure" means either an earthen containment structure or a storage
				  tank used for the storage of wastewater or biological fermentation leachates or
				  a structure constructed for stacking and storage of by-product solids or other
				  material.
(15) "Storage tank" means
				  a containment vessel fabricated of concrete, glass-reinforced plastic or steel
				  for the purpose of storage or treatment of wastewater or biological
				  fermentation leachates.
(16)
				  "Subbase" means the layer or layers of specified or selected material of
				  designed thickness placed on a subgrade to support a base course.
(17) "Subgrade" means the ground surface upon
				  which the pavement structure is constructed.
(18) "Surface course" means the layer or
				  layers of specified material of designed thickness placed on a base course and
				  forming the upper portion of a pavement structure. If more than one layer is
				  specified, the bottom layer is referred to as the binder course.
(19) "Treatment structure" means either an
				  earthen treatment structure or a treatment tank used for the chemical, physical
				  or biological treatment of wastewater or biological fermentation of leachates
				  or a structure constructed for chemical, physical or biological treatment of
				  by-product solids or other material.
(20) "Wetlands" has the meaning specified
				  under s.
				  23.32,
				  Stats.
(21) "WDOT standards for
				  roads and bridge construction" means the Wisconsin department of transportation
				  standard specifications for road and bridge construction, edition of
				  1989.
Copies of the WDOT standards may be inspected at the
						offices of the department, the secretary of state and the revisor of
						statutes.