[CPEO-MEF] GROUNDWATER: Army to suspend Badger Ammo Plant (WI) cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army plans to stop water cleanup

By Jeremiah Tucker
Sauk Prairie Eagle (WI)
October 10, 2012

Regardless of whether local municipalities decide to move forward  
with a public drinking water system for residents near the Badger  
Army Ammunition Plant, the Army is moving forward with plans to  
suspend its cleanup of contaminated groundwater.

The reason, according to Army and Wisconsin Department of Natural  
Resources officials, is that fewer and fewer contaminants are being  
removed from the water pumped to the treatment system, to the point  
that the system’s usefulness is no longer clear.

"The problem is that regardless of what (contamination) remains the  
Army has done all that it will do and offsite all that it can do,"  
said Joan Kenney,


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For the entire article, see
http://www.wiscnews.com/saukprairieeagle/news/local/ 
article_1140fba2-12ec-11e2-88c7-0019bb2963f4.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>
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