[CPEO-MEF] Badger plant neighbors' water

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Federal reps are asked to help

Residents near Badger are unhappy with regulations and protocols.

By Donna Stehling
Sauk Prairie Eagle (WI)
November 17, 2004

Only four homes near the eastern and southeastern boundaries of the
Badger Army Ammunition Plant found to have the presence of
Dinitrotoluene in their wells will continue to receive bottled water
from the U.S. Army. 

Homeowners and residents met with representatives of the U.S. Army and
the state Department of Natural Resources at the invitation of Sumpter
Town Chair Brian Kindschi to discuss the Army's decision to discontinue
the bottled water. 

Badger Installation Director Joan Kenney said the U.S. Army is unable to
provide bottled water because the regulations do not require it. She
said of the 101 wells tested, 99 had no DNT detects. She said unless the
Army has a letter from the state requiring the Army to provide bottled
water, she cannot.

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For the entire article, see
http://speagle.scwn.com/articles/2004/11/17/news/news02.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
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