[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Badger Ammo Plant (WI) groundwater

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Group: Army's plan to protect groundwater near Badger plant doesn't go 
far enough

By Tim Damos
Baraboo News Republic (WI)
March 27, 2008

A watchdog group says the Army's plan to protect groundwater from toxic 
soil at the Badger Army Ammunition Plant might not be good enough.

But the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources last week gave 
approval to the plan, which includes placing caps over three pits on the 
west side of the plant in the township of Sumpter.

When the plant was operational, the Army dumped and burned excess 
chemicals - including some that cause cancer - in the pits while making 
ammunition.

The caps are intended to prevent rainwater from passing through 
contaminated soil and picking up toxic chemicals before reaching 
groundwater.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.wiscnews.com/bnr/news/278652


For the full statement by Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger, go to
http://www.cswab.org/pbgcover.html

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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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