[CPEO-IRF] Badger Ammo Plant (WI) asbestos

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Badger Ammunition plant updates

By Donna Stehling
Sauk Prairie Eagle (WI)
March 14, 2007

TOWN OF SUMPTER - Laura Olah of Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger 
spoke to town of Merrimac officials about a recent state Department of 
Natural Resources decision to modify the way asbestos is handled at the 
facility's landfill.

At the March 6 town of Merrimac meeting, Olah said she supports the Army.

Installation Director Joan Kenney told board members the Army  had been 
placing asbestos removed from buildings they were deconstructing in 
trenches, covering with 3 feet of ground, wet wood mulch and then 
compacting with a heavy machine.

Olah said asbestos is a known carcinogen which does not evaporate or 
dissolve, but it can remain suspended in the air for a long time.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.wiscnews.com/spe/news/123435

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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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