Wisconsin Code § 160.257

Exceptions for aquifer storage and recovery systems
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(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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