Wisconsin Administrative Code
Department of Natural Resources
NR 700-799 - Environmental Protection - Investigation and Remediation of Environmental Contamination
Chapter NR 724 - Remedial and interim action design, implementation, operation, maintenance and monitoring requirements
Section NR 724.17 - Long-term monitoring

Universal Citation: WI Admin Code ยง NR 724.17

Current through August 26, 2024

(1) GENERAL. Responsible parties shall conduct all necessary and appropriate long-term monitoring at a site or facility in accordance with all of the requirements of this section and any other applicable public health and environmental laws.

(2)LONG-TERM MONITORING PLAN. Unless otherwise directed by the department, the responsible parties shall submit a long-term monitoring plan to the department that specifies:

(a) The parameters to be monitored;

(b) The sampling and analytical methods to be used, consistent with the sampling and analysis requirements in s. NR 716.13;

(c) The interval at which monitoring is to be performed; and

(d) The public health and environmental laws, including standards, to be complied with.

(3m)LONG-TERM MONITORING RESULTS. Unless otherwise directed by the department, responsible parties shall submit a monitoring results report to the department after any sampling. Responsible parties shall submit the monitoring results report, including results from private and public wells, within 10 business days of receiving the sample results. Monitoring results shall be submitted in accordance with s. NR 716.14. The report shall include all of the following information:

(a) The information specified under s. NR 724.05(2) (e).

(b) Sampling results.

(c) Monitoring results in tabular and graph form, including the current monitoring results and all previous results, so as to provide a concise summary of the monitoring program.

Note: Long term monitoring for groundwater includes groundwater table elevation data. This data is used for the system effectiveness reporting required by s. NR 724.13 as well as for the assessment used to determine what attenuation processes are occurring at the site.

Note: Section NR 716.14 requires the submittal of specific monitoring result information in a letter or on a form provided by the department.

(d) Laboratory analytical reports and sample chain-of-custody forms, unless otherwise directed by the department.

(e) Identification of any specific environmental standards that have been attained or exceeded and an indication on a site or facility map of the location where the standards have been attained or exceeded.

(f) A preliminary analysis of the cause and significance of any concentrations that attain or exceed specific environmental standards and any increases in concentrations of substances that previously attained or exceeded specific environmental standards, including the factors specified in s. NR 140.24(1) (c) 1. to 10. for groundwater.

Note: Section 292.11, Stats., and ch. NR 706 require that the department be notified immediately of any hazardous substance discharge.

(4)DEPARTMENT REVIEW.

(a) The department shall review and respond to the results [of monitoring] data, if requested to do so by the responsible parties, to evaluate the effectiveness of the remedial action in achieving the environmental and public health laws.

Note: The language in brackets was inadvertently omitted from CR 12-023.

Note: In accordance with ch. NR 749, the appropriate review fee must accompany any request for the department to evaluate environmental data.

(b) The department may review long-term monitoring results at other times at its discretion.

(c) The department may require additional remedial action, pursuant to ch. 292, Stats., based on the evaluation of monitoring results.

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