In this chapter:
Note: Section 281.346(1) (je), Stats., defines "Great Lakes basin" to mean "the watershed of the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River upstream from Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, within the jurisdiction of the parties."
Note: Section NR 812.07(68), Wisc. Adm. Code, defines "one property" to mean "all contiguous land controlled by one owner, lessee, or any other person having a possessory interest. Lands under single ownership bisected by highways or railroad right-of-ways are considered contiguous."
Note: Section 281.346(1) (nm), Stats., defines "person" to mean "an individual or other entity, including a government or a nongovernmental organization, including any scientific, professional, business, nonprofit, or public interest organization or association that is neither affiliated with nor under the direction of a government."
Note: Section 281.346(1) (pm), Stats., defines "public water supply" to mean "water distributed to the public through a physically connected system of treatment, storage, and distribution facilities that serve a group of largely residential customers and that may also serve industrial, commercial, and other institutional customers."
Note: Section 227.114(1), Stats., defines "small business" to mean "a business entity, including its affiliates, which is independently owned and operated and not dominant in its field, and which employs 25 or fewer full-time employees or which has gross sales of less than $5,000,000."
Note: Section 281.346(1) (wp), Stats., defines "water supply system, when not preceded by `public'", to mean "one of the following:
Note: Section 281.01(18), Stats., defines "Waters of the state" to include "those portions of Lake Michigan and Lake Superior within the boundaries of this state, and all lakes, bays, rivers, streams, springs, ponds, wells, impounding reservoirs, marshes, watercourses, drainage systems and other surface water or groundwater, natural or artificial, public or private, within this state or its jurisdiction."
Wis. Admin. Code Department of Natural Resources NR 850.03
Section 281.346(1) (y), Stats., defines "withdraw" to mean "to take water from surface water or groundwater".