[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE - Badger Ammo Plant (WI) bus tours

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

A last look behind the fence at Badger

By Todd Krysiak
Portage Daily Register (WI)
March 12, 2008

Joan Kenney points to the hundreds of crumbling buildings that sprawl 
across prairie at what remains of Badger Army Ammunition Plant and 
discusses a lengthy history of operations determined by conflict abroad.

Kenney wasn't present at the facility when it last geared up for 
production, but her task of overseeing environmental cleanup at the 
facility has required her to study up on its history.

Even as cleanup continues, buildings are being demolished as the Army 
prepares to turn the facility over to state groups and private 
organizations.

Area residents will have a chance this month to get one last look behind 
the fence at what remains of the plant on bus tours offered as part of 
the Between Fences Expo.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.wiscnews.com/pdr/news/276685

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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>
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