86.17 Taking water from highway streams.
(1) The general public shall have the right to use and take water from any spring, creek or running water that may be found running in or across the limits of any public highway, provided that this section shall not interfere with the tunneling or piping of water for the purpose of draining or improving lands on either side of such highway.
(2) Any person who shall wantonly interfere with the free use of the water from any spring or in any creek or stream running across or in any highway shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and be liable to any person damaged thereby for all damages sustained.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 86 - Miscellaneous highway provisions.
86.01 - Materials left in highway; penalty.
86.021 - Highways, cultivation of; injury by farm machinery.
86.022 - Obstructing highway with embankment or ditch.
86.03 - Trees on and adjacent to highway.
86.04 - Highway encroachments.
86.05 - Entrances to highways restored.
86.06 - Highways closed to travel; penalties.
86.07 - Digging in highways or using bridges for advertising.
86.073 - Review of denial of permit.
86.075 - Highway authorities to notify drainage board of highway construction.
86.08 - Dust-free surfacing at licensed dairy or meat packing plants.
86.09 - Access to cemetery preserved.
86.10 - Salvage in highway construction.
86.105 - Snow removal in private driveways.
86.11 - Highways; railroad crossings; grade separation.
86.12 - Highway railroad grade crossings; construction and repair.
86.13 - Railroads to maintain highway crossings.
86.135 - Railroad highway crossings; traffic control.
86.15 - Donations of highway aid to adjoining municipalities.
86.16 - Utility lines on highways; place of poles; penalty.
86.17 - Taking water from highway streams.
86.18 - Milwaukee County highways; location, alteration, maintenance.
86.185 - Populous counties; power over county trunk highways.
86.19 - Highway signs, regulation, prohibition.
86.191 - Advertising in highways prohibited, where.
86.192 - Penalty for injuring guide board, markers, etc.
86.195 - Specific information signs.
86.196 - Tourist-oriented directional signs.
86.20 - Interstate bridge corporations.
86.21 - Interstate toll bridges.
86.22 - Interstate railroad bridges must have convenient approaches.
86.23 - Maintenance of drawbridges owned jointly.
86.25 - Municipal cooperation as to highways improved with state or federal aid.
86.255 - Limitation on moneys used to purchase land remote from highway project.
86.257 - Transfer of highways.
86.30 - General transportation aids.
86.302 - Local roads; inventory.
86.305 - Eligibility for transportation aids.
86.31 - Local roads improvement program.
86.312 - Local roads for job preservation program.
86.315 - County forest road aids.