160.32 Common law and liability.
(1) Common law unaffected. Nothing in this chapter restricts or abrogates any remedy which any person or class of persons may have under other statutory or common law.
(2) No admission of liability. A response at a specific site taken by any person under s. 160.23 or 160.25 is not evidence of liability or an admission of liability for any potential or actual environmental pollution, as defined under s. 299.01 (4).
History: 1983 a. 410; 1995 a. 227.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 160 - Groundwater protection standards.
160.03 - Duties of department.
160.05 - Identification of groundwater contamination; categories.
160.07 - Establishment of enforcement standards; substances of public health concern.
160.09 - Establishment of enforcement standards; substances of public welfare concern.
160.13 - Methodology to establish enforcement standard.
160.15 - Establishment of preventive action limits.
160.17 - Collection of information.
160.19 - Regulatory agency; review of existing regulations; design and management criteria.
160.21 - Adoption of rules for regulatory responses for groundwater contamination.
160.23 - Implementation of responses for specific sites; preventive action limits.
160.25 - Implementation of responses for specific sites; enforcement standards.
160.255 - Exceptions for private on-site wastewater treatment systems.
160.257 - Exceptions for aquifer storage and recovery systems.
160.27 - Substances in groundwater; monitoring.
160.29 - Petitioning for rule making.
160.32 - Common law and liability.
160.33 - Public participation.
160.34 - No mandatory well repair as a condition for testing.