200.35 Sewerage construction, operation and maintenance.

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(1)General powers of the commission. To the extent necessary to carry out its duties under s. 200.31 , the commission may project, plan, design, adopt, construct, operate and maintain:

(a)District, interceptor and outfall sewers.

(b)Conduits, drains and pumping and other plants for the collection and transmission of residential, industrial and other sanitary sewage from local sewers to and into the interceptor sewers of the district.

(c)Facilities for the treatment and disposal of sewage transmitted into the interceptor sewers of the district.

(d)Pumping stations and tunnels for the purpose of flushing any of the rivers flowing through the district.

(e)Storm sewers and other facilities and structures for the collection and transmission of storm water and groundwater.

(f)Buildings, structures and facilities appurtenant to structures authorized under pars.

(a)to

(e).

(2)River and lake beds.

(a)Except as provided in par.

(b), the commission may lay, construct and maintain, without compensation to the state, any part of the sewerage system or of its works or appurtenances over, upon or under any part of the bed of any river or its branches flowing through the district, or of any land that has not been the subject of a state lake bed grant to a county in which a 1st class city is located and that is covered by any of the outlying waters, as defined in s. 29.001

(63).

(b)Nothing in this subchapter authorizes the commission to lay or construct any part of the sewerage system after April 27, 1982, over, upon or under any land covered by any outlying waters, as defined in s. 29.001

(63), unless the commission first obtains the prior consent of both houses of the legislature and the governor.