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

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Asbestos concerns resurface at Badger

By Tim Damos
Sauk Prairie Eagle (WI)
February 6, 2008

TOWN OF SUMPTER - State and county officials warn that delayed 
demolition efforts at the Badger Army Ammunition Plant will halt 
asbestos inspections of old buildings, which could create a public 
health hazard.

The delay in inspecting and demolishing buildings has the potential to 
make transferring ownership of the property more expensive in the long 
run, officials say.

The Army funding would have paid a contractor, SpecPro, to continue 
demolishing some of the plant's 1,400 structures. It also funded the 
Sauk County Public Health Department's inspection of buildings before 
they are demolished or transferred to another entity, such as the DNR 
and the Ho-Chunk Nation.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.wiscnews.com/spe/news/271213

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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