[CPEO-MEF] Badger Ammo Plant - "Army cuts down on bottled water"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army cuts down on bottled water 


By Scott De Laruelle
Baraboo News Republic (WI)
December 8, 2004

Members of a local environmental group are upset the Army is no longer
providing bottled water to dozens of residents near the Badger Army
Ammunition Plant where several wells have tested positive for a
potential human carcinogen.

Badger Installation Director Joan Kenney said the Army will only provide
water to people at four homes whose wells have tested positive for
dinitrotoluene, or DNT, above the state's drinking water standard. She
said the Army initially provided water to other area homes as a
precaution, but when recent tests showed no contamination, there was no
more need.

"We didn't know whether this was real contamination, or if it has
spread, so we gave bottled water to anyone who might be in the pathway,"
Kenney said. "Once we had our sample results, most of our concerns were
not supported by the data. We didn't have any justification to continue
(providing water)."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.wiscnews.com/bnr/news/index.php?ntid=20561&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
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