[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, REGULATION: "Army ignores [Wisconsin] test requirement"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army ignores DNR testing requirement

By Tim Damos
Baraboo News Republic (WI)
October 13, 2011

The U.S. Army says it will not comply with a directive from state  
regulators to enhance soil testing at a contaminated former  
ammunition plant near Baraboo.

In a letter earlier this week, Badger Army Ammunition Plant  
Commander's Representative Joan Kenney told state Department of  
Natural Resources officials they lacked the legal authority to  
require more stringent soil sampling.

Last month DNR Hydrologist Jeff Ackerman informed the Army that it  
must begin testing soil at Badger for all six forms of a chemical  
known as DNT. The Army has previously only tested for the two most  
common forms (or isomers) of the toxic chemical, which once was used  
to make explosives at the ammunition plant.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.wiscnews.com/baraboonewsrepublic/news/local/ 
article_cef03f02-f608-11e0-9c7a-001cc4c002e0.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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