Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Natural Resources › NR 100-199 - Environmental Protection - General › Chapter NR 114 - Certification Requirements For Waterworks, Wastewater Treatment Plant, Septage Servicing And Water System Operators › Subchapter III - Certification of Water System Operators › Section NR 114.28 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) "Certificate" means a printed document
				  issued by the department, pursuant to this subchapter, stating that the
				  operator named therein has met the competency requirements for
				  certification.
(2) "Certified
				  operator" means a person who has met the requirements of this subchapter and
				  has been issued a certificate by the department to work at a water
				  system.
(3) "Classification" or
				  "class" means a number assigned to a water system based on a rating
				  system.
(4) "Community water
				  system" has the meaning given in s.
				  NR
				  809.04(4).
Note:
Section
					 NR
					 809.04(4) defines "community water
					 system" to mean "a public water system which serves at least 15 service
					 connections used by year-round residents or regularly serves at least 25
					 year-round residents. Any public water 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 water system unless information is available to
					 indicate that 25 year-round residents will not be served."
(5) "Department" means the department of
				  natural resources.
(6) "Direct
				  responsible charge" means the responsibility to provide detailed on-site
				  technical direction of the operation of a water system.
(7) "Operate" means to be in direct
				  responsible charge of a subclass of operations at a water system.
(8) "Operator-in-charge" means the person
				  designated by the owner of a water system to be in direct responsible charge of
				  a subclass of operations of the water system. Not included in this definition
				  are managers, engineers, directors or the equivalent, who are not actually
				  involved in day-to-day operations of the system.
(9) "Owner" means the state, county, town,
				  town sanitary district, city, village, metropolitan sewerage district,
				  corporation, firm, company, institution, association, utility district, school
				  district, joint sewerage commission or individual owning or operating any water
				  system.
(10) "Subclass" means a
				  letter assigned a plant or system based upon a particular type of process at
				  the plant and the letter assigned to a person based on passing an examination
				  for a specific operational process.
(11) "Water system" means an other than
				  municipal community or a non-transient non-community public water system as
				  defined in pars. (a) and (b):
(a) "Other than
				  municipal community water system" means a community water system that is not a
				  municipal water system and is not a waterworks as defined in sub. (11).
				  Examples of other than municipal community water systems include, but are not
				  limited to, those serving mobile home parks, apartments and
				  condominiums.
(b) "Non-transient
				  non-community water system" means a non-community water system that regularly
				  serves at least 25 of the same persons over 6 months per year and is not a
				  waterworks as defined in sub. (11). Examples of non-transient non-community
				  water systems include, but are not limited to, those serving schools, day care
				  centers and factories.