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

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

New test wells proposed for Badger

By Jeremiah Tucker
Sauk Prairie Eagle (WI)
August 14, 2008

The town of Merrimac wants its residents to understand what the ground 
water contamination from the nearby Badger Army Ammunition Plant means 
to them.

...

Citizens for Safe Drinking Water Around Badger Executive Director Laura 
Olah said the Army will install six new monitoring wells - three of 
which will be outside Badger near homes in Weigand's Bay - during the 
board's regular meeting on Aug. 5.

She told the board the new monitoring wells were installed after the 
Army detected levels of the explosive dinitrotoluene (DNT) in two deep 
monitoring wells in the northeast corner of the plant.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.wiscnews.com/spe/news/300504

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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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