Wisconsin Administrative Code
Department of Natural Resources
NR 200-299 - Environmental Protection Wisconsin Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
Chapter NR 274 - Nonferrous metals manufacturing
Subchapter IV - Primary Copper Smelting
Section NR 274.042 - Effluent limitations representing the degree of effluent reduction attainable by the application of the best practicable control technology currently available
Current through August 26, 2024
(1) Except as provided in 40 CFR 125.30 to 125.32 and sub. (2), any existing point source subject to this primary copper smelting subchapter may not discharge process wastewater pollutants to waters of the state.
(2) A process wastewater impoundment which is designed, constructed, and operated to contain the precipitation from the 10-year, 24-hour rainfall event as established for the impoundment's location by the national climatic center, national oceanic and atmospheric administration, may discharge a volume of process wastewater equivalent to the volume of precipitation which falls within the impoundment in excess of the precipitation attributable to the 10-year, 24-hour rainfall event, when such an event occurs.
