Wisconsin Statutes Highways (Ch. 80 to 86) § 85.193. Borrow and material disposal sites for transportation projects

(a) “Borrow” means soil or a mixture of soil and stone, gravel, or other material suitable for use in the construction of embankments or other similar earthworks constructed as part of a transportation project.

(b) “Borrow site” means a site off of the transportation project property from which borrow is excavated for use in a transportation project.

(c) “Material disposal site” means a site off of the transportation project property used for the lawful disposal of surplus materials from a transportation project and that is under the direct control of the transportation project contractor or a transportation project subcontractor. “Material disposal site” does not include a private landfill that is not managed by the transportation project contractor or a transportation project subcontractor or a landfill that is owned or directly controlled by a political subdivision.

(d) “Political subdivision” means a city, village, town, or county.

(e) “Transportation project” means a construction or maintenance project directed and supervised by the department that relates to an airport, railroad, highway, bridge, or other transportation facility and that is subject to an agreement under s. 30.2022.

(a) The owner of the property consents to the establishment of a site on his or her property.

(b) The department determines that the site is not a commercial establishment that has a fixed place of business from which the establishment regularly supplies processed or manufactured materials or products.

(c) The transportation project contractor assumes sole responsibility for the operation of the site.

(d) The site is used solely for the specified transportation project and solely during the period of construction of the specified transportation project.

(e) The transportation project contractor or a transportation project subcontractor does not crush, screen, wash, blast, or apply another manufacturing process to mineral aggregate from the borrow site, on or off the borrow site, to produce finished aggregate products.

(g) The transportation project contractor complies with all of the following: