[CPEO-MEF] WATER, COMMUNITIES: "Public speaks on Badger [Ammo Plant, WI] water plan"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Public speaks on Badger water plan

By Tim Damos
Baraboo News Republic (WI)
April 27, 2012

Only one of the nearly 70 comments submitted to a state agency  
directly supported the U.S. Army’s proposed solution to groundwater  
pollution at a former weapons plant south of Baraboo.

More than two-thirds of the comments were critical of the Army’s  
plan, and about 15 commentators took no position or requested  
additional information. The Department of Natural Resources provided  
copies of the written comments to the Baraboo News Republic following  
an open records request.

"It is very important that the DNR does whatever it can to enforce  
active environmental restoration at Badger within reasonable means,"  
Marge Hill of Merrimac wrote to the DNR. "The Army needs to take  
responsibility to clean up the mess it has created."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.wiscnews.com/baraboonewsrepublic/news/local/ 
article_13409924-90c6-11e1-ae82-001a4bcf887a.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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