31.38 – Municipal authority to construct and maintain dams.
31.38 Municipal authority to construct and maintain dams. (1) Every municipality may, subject to this chapter, authorize the acquisition, construction, maintenance or repair of dams across any lake or stream adjoining or within the limits of such municipality, and may locate such dam within or without such limits. (2) Whenever it is deemed necessary to […]
31.385 – Dam safety; aid program.
31.385 Dam safety; aid program. (1b) In this section “dam safety project” means the maintenance, repair, modification, abandonment or removal of a dam to increase its safety or any other activity that will increase the safety of a dam. (1m) The department shall promulgate the rules necessary to administer a financial assistance program for dam […]
31.387 – Dam rehabilitation projects.
31.387 Dam rehabilitation projects. The department shall establish and administer a grant program under which the department shall provide grants to counties to rehabilitate dams located in those counties. The department may only provide a grant for a project under this section to match federal funds provided for the project under the federal Watershed Protection […]
31.39 – Fees for permits, approvals and hearings.
31.39 Fees for permits, approvals and hearings. (1) Fees required. The department shall charge a permit or approval fee for carrying out its duties and responsibilities under ss. 31.02 to 31.185 and 31.33 to 31.38. The permit or approval fee shall accompany the permit application or request for approval. (2) Amount of fees. (a) For […]
31.99 – Parties to a violation.
31.99 Parties to a violation. (1) Whoever is concerned in the commission of a violation of this chapter for which a forfeiture is imposed is a principal and may be charged with and convicted of the violation although he or she did not directly commit it and although the person who directly committed it has […]
31.31 – Dams on nonnavigable streams.
31.31 Dams on nonnavigable streams. Any person may erect and maintain upon that person’s land, and, with the consent of the owner, upon the land of another, a water mill and a dam to raise water for working it upon and across any stream that is not navigable in fact for any purpose whatsoever upon […]
31.32 – Dams not to injure other dams or sites.
31.32 Dams not to injure other dams or sites. No such dam shall be erected to the injury of any mill lawfully existing, either above or below it on the same stream; nor to the injury of any mill site on the same stream on which a mill or milldam shall have been lawfully erected […]
31.33 – Jurisdiction of department.
31.33 Jurisdiction of department. (1) Dams heretofore or hereafter constructed; action for damages. All mills and milldams lawfully erected or constructed, on streams not navigable at the time, under chapter 48, territorial laws of 1840, chapter 62, laws of 1857, ch. 56, R.S. 1858, ch. 146, R.S. 1878, ch. 146, R.S. 1898, ch. 146, 1911 […]
31.34 – Flow of water regulated.
31.34 Flow of water regulated. (1) Except as provided in subs. (2) and (3), each person, firm, or corporation maintaining a dam on any navigable stream shall pass at all times at least 25 percent of the natural low flow of water of such stream. (2) Except as provided in sub. (3), if all of […]
31.35 – Dams in areas leased by county; restrictions; control by circuit judge; when.
31.35 Dams in areas leased by county; restrictions; control by circuit judge; when. (1) Dams controlling the water elevations in areas covered by leases made under s. 59.01 shall be operated in such manner as not to divert waters or withhold from any cranberry reservoir to the damage of any cranberry marsh now served or […]