[CPEO-BIF] "Madison-Kipp penalized $350, 000 in pollution case, " Madison, Wisconsin

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Madison-Kipp penalized $350,000 in pollution case

by STEVEN VERBURG 
Wisconsin State Journal
November 28, 2017

Madison-Kipp Corp. has agreed to pay $350,000 in penalties by 2026 to settle a 2012 Wisconsin Department of Justice  lawsuit over toxic soil and ground water pollution.

The company is allowed to wait five years before it makes an initial payment of $25,000. The final installment is due by  2027, under the settlement approved Monday by Dane County Circuit Judge Richard Niess.

The agreement allows the company to indefinitely postpone removal of very high concentrations of PCBs -- polychlorinated biphenyls -- beneath its plant on Waubesa Street. The company is required to establish a bond or other financial assurance of up to $1.65 million for future cleanup costs. 

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For the entire article, see
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/wisconsin-settles-longstanding-madison-kipp-pollution-case-with-fine/article_2610daf7-7b18-57f5-bf32-2e2b109e98a8.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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