DNT in Badger AAP Water

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Badger Army Ammunition Plant

Homes receive bottled water

Trace amounts of explosive chemical are present in drinking wells near Badger.

By Chris Keller
Sauk Prairie Eagle (WI)
April 21, 2004

Tests of drinking-water wells serving dozens of homes south of Badger
Army Ammunition Plant showed low levels of dinitrotoluene, a chemical
considered a possible human carcinogen by the Environmental Protection Agency.

The U.S. Army announced the results last week to residents of about 40
homes who live near the intersections of County Highway Z and State
Highway 78, Dam Road and in The Windings subdivision.

While test results show DNT, a chemical used in the production of
explosives, gun powder and rocket fuel, does not exceed state Department
of Natural Resources drinking water standards - which is 50
parts-per-trillion - the army voluntarily provided bottled water to
those who live where the chemical has been found.

Steve Ales, a hydrogeologist with the DNR remediation and redevelopment
program, said the results are from about 40 of the 80 or 90 wells that
were tested. The remaining results could be back next week

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for the entire story, see
http://speagle.scwn.com/articles/2004/04/21/news/news01.txt

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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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