Wisconsin Administrative Code

NR 506.055 Alternate daily cover. (1) FACILITIES SEEKING APPROVAL. An owner or operator of a solid waste landfill seeking approval from the department to use an alternate daily cover material shall submit the following information: (a) Type of material to be used, including its c…

NR 506.06 Intermediate cover. Unless otherwise approved by the department in writing, any portion of a landfill that has been used for solid waste disposal but will not receive additional solid waste for a period exceeding 6 months shall be covered with a minimum of one foot of s…

NR 506.07 Operational requirements for landfills. No person may operate or maintain a new or existing landfill except in conformance with any approved plan of operation and the following minimum requirements: (1) GENERAL. (a) Daily disposal of solid waste shall be confined to as …

NR 506.08 Closure requirements. Any person who maintains or operates a landfill, except a CCR landfill regulated under s. NR 506.083, or who permits use of property for such purpose shall, when the fill area or portion thereof reaches final grade, or when the department determine…

NR 506.081 Long-term care requirements. Longterm care for all landfills, except a CCR landfill regulated under s. NR 506.084, shall be performed in accordance with the plan of operation approval or closure plan approval issued by the department and all of the following: (1) LONG-…

NR 506.083 Closure requirements for CCR landfills. Closure of a new or existing CCR landfill or a lateral expansion of a CCR landfill shall be performed in accordance with the plan of operation approval issued by the department and all of the following: (1) NOTIFICATION PROCEDURE…

NR 506.084 Long-term care requirements for CCR landfills. Long-term care of a new or existing CCR landfill or a lateral expansion of a CCR landfill shall be performed in accordance with the plan of operation approval issued by the department and all of the following: (1) LONG-TER…

NR 506.09 Waste characterization. (1) GENERAL. No person may dispose in a landfill prohibited items under s. NR 506.095. Wastes which are limited under ss. NR 506.10 to 506.155 may only be disposed in accordance with those sections. Solid wastes which are not prohibited or limite…

NR 506.095 Prohibited items. No person may dispose of the following in a landfill: (1) Lead acid batteries. (2) Major appliances. (3) Waste oil, used oil filters, oil absorbent materials, or ma- 8 terials containing waste oil, except as provided under s. NR 506.105 and par. (a). …

NR 506.10 Asbestos. No person may dispose of asbestos containing material at a solid waste landfill except in conformance with the following minimum requirements: (1) LANDFILL CRITERIA. Only facilities meeting the following criteria may accept asbestos for disposal: (a) Except as…

NR 506.105 Untreated contaminated unconsolidated material. Except as provided in s. NR 506.095 (3) and this section, untreated contaminated unconsolidated material which is the result of a remediation conducted under chs. NR 700 to 736, or a remediation conducted in another state…

NR 506.11 Infectious waste. No person may accept infectious waste at a solid waste disposal facility unless the requirements of s. NR 526.13 have been met. History: Cr. Register, January, 1988, No. 385, eff. 2-6-88; am. Register, October, 1994, No. 466, eff. 11-1-94.

NR 506.12 Technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive material waste. (1) A landfill may accept for disposal TENORM waste if all of the following requirements are met: (a) The landfill is a licensed and approved facility as defined under s. 289.01 (3), Stats. (b) The…

NR 506.13 Free liquids wastes. (1) SMALL QUANTITY EXEMPTION. An owner or operator of a solid waste landfill used for the disposal of municipal solid waste may not accept containers holding liquid waste unless: (a) The container is small and similar in size to that normally found …

NR 506.135 Leachate recirculation. (1) GENERAL. Leachate recirculation operations shall comply with the following requirements: (a) Leachate recirculation distribution systems may not discharge leachate within 100 lateral feet of the exterior sideslope final grades, unless otherw…

NR 506.15 Management of residue produced by burning municipal solid waste. (1) GENERAL. No person may operate or maintain a landfill for the disposal of residue produced by the burning of municipal solid waste, except in accordance with this section and the written approval of th…

NR 506.155 Very small quantities of hazardous waste. No person may accept hazardous waste from very small quantity generators excluded from regulation under s. NR 662.014 except in accordance with this section and the written approval of the department. (1) LANDFILL CRITERIA. No …

NR 506.16 Procedures for excluding the receipt of waste not specifically approved for acceptance at the landfill. Owners and operators of landfills that accept municipal solid waste shall implement a program at the landfill for detecting and preventing the disposal of waste not s…

NR 506.17 Record keeping. (1) LANDFILL WRITTEN OPERATING RECORD. (a) The owner or operator of a landfill, except a CCR landfill, shall maintain a written operating record at the landfill during the operating life and long-term care of the landfill. The department may approve an a…

NR 506.18 Enforcement. The department may deny, suspend or revoke the operating license of a solid waste disposal facility as provided in s. 289.31 (1), Stats., for failure to pay fees required under ch. 289, Stats., or for grievous and continuous failure to comply with the appro…

NR 506.19 Landfill compliance certifications and audits. (1) COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATION. No later than April 30 of each year and until otherwise specified by the department, the owner or operator of any licensed landfill that is in operation, or of any licensed, closed landfill wit…

NR 506.20 Inspection and reporting requirements for a CCR landfill. (1) PERIODIC INSPECTIONS. A new or existing CCR landfill or a lateral expansion of a CCR landfill shall be inspected in accordance with all of the following: (a) A person trained to recognize appearances or condi…

NR 507.01 Purpose. The purpose of this chapter is to help ensure that efficient, nuisance-free and environmentally acceptable solid waste management procedures are practiced in this state, to outline environmental monitoring requirements at solid waste facilities and to implement…

NR 507.02 Applicability. (1) (a) Except as provided in par. (b) and except as otherwise provided, this chapter governs all environmental monitoring for solid waste disposal facilities as defined under s. 289.01 (35), Stats., including all CCR landfills and expansions. (b) This ch…

NR 507.03 Definitions. The terms used in this chapter are defined in s. NR 500.03. History: Cr. Register, June, 1996, No. 486, eff. 7-1-96. NR 507.17 NR 507.18 NR 507.19 NR 507.20 NR 507.21 NR 507.215 NR 507.22 NR 507.23 NR 507.24 NR 507.25 NR 507.26 NR 507.27 NR 507.28 NR 507.29…

NR 507.04 General requirements for monitoring devices and geologic sampling. The department may require an owner or operator of a solid waste disposal facility to install, sample and document environmental monitoring devices in accordance with this chapter. All monitoring devices…

NR 507.05 Soil and rock sampling. All soil and rock samples collected from borings shall be collected and tested in accordance with this section unless otherwise approved in writing by the department. (1) SOIL SAMPLE COLLECTION. Soil samples shall be collected in accordance with …

NR 507.06 Groundwater monitoring well design and installation. All groundwater sampling devices shall be designed, located, installed and maintained so as to obtain reliable and representative information regarding aquifer characteristics, groundwater flow directions and chemical…

NR 507.08 Boring and well abandonment. All monitoring wells and boreholes shall be abandoned in accordance with s. NR 141.25 and this section. (1) TIMELINE. All boreholes not instrumented with a well shall be abandoned immediately after completion of drilling and soil sampling. (…

NR 507.09 Leachate head well design and installation. All leachate head wells required under s. NR 504.09 (2) (i) shall be located, designed and installed so as to obtain reliable and representative information regarding the leachate head levels within the landfill. Leachate head…

NR 507.10 Collection basin lysimeter design and installation. All collection basin lysimeters required under s. NR 504.06 (5) (u) shall be located, designed, and installed so as to obtain reliable and representative information regarding movement of liquid through the landfill li…

NR 507.11 Gas monitoring well design and installation. All gas monitoring wells shall be designed, installed and documented in accordance with ss. NR 507.04, 507.05, 507.06 (1) and (2) and 507.14 and the requirements of this section unless the department approves alternate method…

NR 507.12 Other monitoring device design and installation. The department may require other monitoring devices based on an evaluation of the potential for environmental impacts and the risk those impacts pose to human health and the environment. History: Cr. Register, June, 1996,…

NR 507.13 Inspections and replacement devices. The facility owner or operator shall inspect at least annually all monitoring devices installed for field investigations conducted under this chapter. Sampling personnel shall inspect all monitoring devices each time the device is sa…

NR 507.14 Documentation of monitoring devices and geologic sampling. All well construction and abandonment, well development, and boring advancement and abandonment activities shall be documented and reported to the department in accordance with s. NR 141.23 and this section. The…

NR 507.15 General requirements for environmental monitoring. (1) ALL FACILITIES. The department may require the owner or operator of any landfill, or any person who permits the use of property for that purpose, to conduct environmental monitoring in accordance with this chapter a…

NR 507.16 Sampling plan. The owner or operator shall submit a sampling plan for all monitoring devices at the facility for approval as part of the feasibility report. The sampling plan shall be implemented as approved in writing by the department. The sampling plan shall follow p…

NR 507.17 Sampling, analysis, and laboratory requirements. This section applies to all sampling required under chs. NR 507 and 508. The owner or operator shall obtain and analyze samples according to the approved sampling plan and the following requirements: (1) FIELD MEASUREMENT…

NR 507.18 Baseline groundwater quality sampling. An applicant for a proposed facility for all its monitoring wells and the owner or operator of an existing facility for its designated Subtitle D wells shall establish baseline groundwater quality in accordance with subs. (1) to (3…

NR 507.19 Detection groundwater monitoring. Owners or operators of solid waste disposal facilities shall implement a detection groundwater monitoring program in accordance with this section and the approved plan of operation unless otherwise approved in writing by the department.…

NR 507.20 Water supply well monitoring. The department may require the owner or operator to sample water supply wells as part of a detection groundwater monitoring program or to determine the extent of groundwater contamination. (1) WATER SUPPLY WELL SAMPLES. (a) Water supply wel…

NR 507.21 Lysimeter fluid and leachate monitoring. The owner or operator of a solid waste disposal facility shall sample lysimeter fluid and leachate in accordance with this section. (1) SAMPLING PARAMETERS. Owners or operators of landfills shall sample lysimeter fluid and leacha…

NR 507.215 Leachate recirculation monitoring. The owner or operator of a solid waste facility that recirculates leachate shall sample for, maintain records of, and report to the department all of the following, in accordance with ch. NR 507 Appendix I, Table 4A: (1) LIQUID MASS B…

NR 507.22 Gas monitoring. (1) GAS MIGRATION. The department may require the owner or operator to install gas monitoring devices, to prepare and submit gas sampling and analysis programs and to monitor for gas migration. If explosive gases are detected in any gas monitoring well l…

NR 507.23 Surface water monitoring. The department may require the owner or operator to monitor storm water runoff, leachate seeps, sumps, sedimentation ponds, any surface water bodies including wetlands, and other storm water discharges resulting from facility operation. Unless …

NR 507.24 Air monitoring. If the facility has the potential to cause air pollution as defined in s. 285.01 (3), Stats., the department may require the owner or operator to monitor air quality for particulates, toxics or other constituents in the ambient air from point sources or …

NR 507.25 Other monitoring. If the facility has the potential to cause environmental pollution as defined in s. 299.01 (4), Stats., the department may require the owner or operator to monitor any or all of the following: landfill settlement; berm, sideslope and final cover stabil…