[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Badger Ammo Plant (WI) "will be divided up, public can tour"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Baraboo property will be divided up, public can tour

By Meg Jones
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
October 18, 2012

Baraboo - For seven decades this property either thrived with  
thousands of workers manufacturing ammunition for three wars or lay  
dormant once the Army no longer needed it.
Now this land is about to change again - in some places, it could  
soon return to the prairie and oak savanna that once was the face of  
Wisconsin, and hikers and bicyclists could traverse a landscape where  
nitroglycerin was mixed.

The Badger Army Ammunition Plant, which produced more than 1 billion  
pounds of rocket propellant, ball powder and smokeless powder used in  
World War II, Korea and Vietnam, has practically disappeared. All but  
a handful of the 1,400 buildings that once dotted the 7,000-plus  
acres now exist only as piles of concrete crushed into gravel, three- 
story-high towers of chipped wood destined for a landfill and massive  
tangled bundles of rebar waiting to be sold as scrap.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/changes-in-store-for-badger- 
army-ammunition-plant-f87911q-174868661.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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