[CPEO-BIF] "Evacuation of contaminated Milwaukee [Wisconsin] apartments leads to finger-pointing between city and state officials"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Who knew what and when? Evacuation of contaminated Milwaukee apartments leads to finger-pointing between city and state officials

By Alison Dirr
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI)
March 30, 2023

The abrupt evacuation of residents of a Milwaukee apartment building over chemical contamination dangers last weekend evolved into finger-pointing between city and state representatives late Thursday over who was told what and when.

Despite meeting in January with the City of Milwaukee department responsible for issuing occupancy permits, state Department of Natural Resources staff did not learn until last week that residents had moved into the building, according to a department statement issued Thursday.

But the city contends that neither the DNR nor any other source told the city there were dangerous levels of the chemical trichloroethylene, or TCE, at Community Within the Corridor East Block, 2748 N. 32nd Street, until late last week.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2023/03/30/evacuation-of-contaminated-milwaukee-building-leads-to-finger-pointing/70066441007/

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources statement may be found at
https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/newsroom/release/71211

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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