Re: [CPEO-IRF] Children at Risk from Lead in Badger Soils

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Lead can stay in Badger Ammo soil, DNR says

RON SEELY
Wisconsin State Journal
July 26, 2006

The state Department of Natural Resources is allowing the U.S. Army to 
leave lead in the soil at its Badger Army Ammunition Plant at levels 
that may pose a risk to children, according to a watchdog group 
monitoring the cleanup at the defunct plant.

...

But officials with the DNR said Tuesday the agency is asking that the 
most contaminated soils of the plant be cleaned to the 30 ppm level. 
Eileen Pierce, who is overseeing cleanup of the plant for the DNR, said 
the original standard of 30 ppm, set in January 1995, remains the 
standard for the "most heavily contaminated soils."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/index.php?ntid=92388&ntpid=1
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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