281.16 Water quality protection; nonpoint sources.

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(1)Definitions. In this section:

(a)“Agricultural facility” means a structure associated with an agricultural practice.

(b)“Agricultural practice” means beekeeping; commercial feedlots; dairying; egg production; floriculture; fish or fur farming; grazing; livestock raising; orchards; poultry raising; raising of grain, grass, mint and seed crops; raising of fruits, nuts and berries; sod farming; placing land in federal programs in return for payments in kind; owning land, at least 35 acres of which is enrolled in the conservation reserve program under 16 USC 3831 to 3836 ; and vegetable raising.

(bg)“Artificial water body” has the meaning given in s. 30.19

(a).

(br)“Covered municipality” means a municipality that has been issued an individual municipal separate storm sewer permit under s. 283.33 or that is covered by a general municipal separate storm sewer permit under s. 283.35 .

(c)“Livestock operation” means a feedlot or other facility or a pasture where animals are fed, confined, maintained or stabled.

(d)“Navigable waters” has the meaning given in s. 281.31

(d).

(e)“Nonpoint source” means a facility or practice that causes, or has the potential to cause, nonpoint source water pollution.

(f)“Nonpoint source water pollution” means pollution of waters of the state that does not result from a point source, as defined in s. 283.01

(12).

(g)“Water quality management area” means any of the following:

1. The area within 1,000 feet from the ordinary high-water mark of navigable waters that consist of a lake, pond or flowage, except that, for a navigable water that is a glacial pothole lake, “water quality management area” means the area within 1,000 feet from the high-water mark of the lake.

2. The area within 300 feet from the ordinary high-water mark of navigable waters that consist of a river or stream.

3. A site that is susceptible to groundwater contamination or that has the potential to be a direct conduit for contamination to reach groundwater.