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Planning & Zoning
View or download the 2024 Fee Schedule (PDF), which is effective until December 30, 2025.
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Mission Statement
The Department of Planning and Zoning shall strive to protect and promote the health, safety and general welfare of all property owners and to protect the environment and physical and natural resources through the application of professional planning practices, the advancement of a county-wide Geographical Information System (GIS), the professional administration and equitable enforcement of all Chippewa County, State, and Federal land use codes and ordinances.
- Is there financial assistance to help property owners replace a failing system?
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The POWTS Replacement or Rehabilitation Program (a.k.a.
Wisconsin Fund Program
) may reimburse the property owner up to $7,000 of the POWTS replacement cost if the failing POWTS, the use of the property, and the property owner meet certain income eligibility requirements and:- The Department of Planning and Zoning has determined the failure of the POWTS prior to replacement or rehabilitation.
- The failed POWTS is not located in an area served by a public sewer system.
- The failed POWTS was installed prior to July 1, 1978, and:
- Discharges sewage into surface or groundwater
- Introduces sewage into zones of saturation, which adversely affects the operation of the POWTS
- Discharges sewage to a drain tile or into a zone of bedrock
- Discharges sewage to the surface of the ground
- The failure of the POWTS to accept sewage, which in turn causes sewage to back up into the structure.
- The POWTS services a principal residence and is occupied at least 51% of the year
- The family income does not exceed $45,000.
- The POWTS services a small commercial establishment with a maximum daily waste water flow rate of less than 5,000 gallons per day.
- The annual gross revenue for the business that owns the small commercial establishment does not exceed $362,500.
- Per 2017 Wisconsin Act 59, the POWTS Replacement or Rehabilitation Program will be eliminated as of June 30, 2021.
- Will there be a large number of POWTS identified as failing?
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- It is expected that the Department will find POWTS that are failing, but an absolute number is hard to determine.
- POWTS that are observed to have sewage on the ground surface will be reported as failing and will most likely need to be replaced.
- Other counties that have already initiated the program have not found a large problem with failing systems.
- What is the penalty for not complying?
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- A late fee of $25 is proposed for failure to submit the required inspection report after a second notice is sent.
- Citations of up $200 can be issued for not submitting the required inspection report.
- Citations of up to $500 can be issued for pumping sewage to the ground surface.