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Wisconsin Statutes Health (Ch. 140 to 162) § 160.257. Exceptions for aquifer storage and recovery systems

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(1) In this section:

(a) “Aquifer storage and recovery system” means all of the aquifer storage and recovery wells and related appurtenances that are part of a municipal water system.

(b) “Aquifer storage and recovery well” means a well through which treated drinking water is placed underground for the purpose of storing and later recovering the water through the same well for use as drinking water.

(c) “Municipal water system” means a community water system, as defined in s. 281.62(1)(a), that is owned by a city, village, town, county, town sanitary district, utility district, public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district, or municipal water district, or by a privately owned water utility serving any of the foregoing.

(d) “Specified substance” means one of the following:

1. Chloroform.

2. Bromodichloromethane.

3. Dibromochloromethane.

4. Bromoform.

(e) “Treated drinking water” means potable water that has been treated so that it complies with the primary drinking water standards promulgated under ss. 280.11 and 281.17(8).

(2) Notwithstanding s. 160.19(1) and (2), the department is not required to promulgate or amend rules that define design or management criteria for aquifer storage and recovery systems to minimize the amount of a specified substance in groundwater or to maintain compliance with the preventive action limit for a specified substance, however, the department shall promulgate rules that define design or management criteria for aquifer storage and recovery systems to maintain compliance with drinking water standards promulgated under ss. 280.11 and 281.17(8).

(3) Notwithstanding s. 160.21(2), the point of standards application for an aquifer storage and recovery well with respect to a specified substance is 1,200 feet from the aquifer storage and recovery well and at any other well that is within 1,200 feet from the aquifer storage and recovery well.

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