[CPEO-MEF] WATER: "Residents near shuttered Badger Army Ammunition Plant [WI] wait for water system"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tapped out: Residents near shuttered Badger Army Ammunition Plant wait for water system

by KATELYN FERRAL 
Capital Times (WI)
July 12, 2017

NORTH FREEDOM - Twenty years ago, the Army began a massive cleanup effort at what was once the world's largest ammunition factory.

Most of Badger Army Ammunition Plant’s buildings were demolished, its 7,500 acres about 30 miles northwest of Madison divided to be used for agriculture and recreation. The groundwater there was tested by the Army regularly to determine the effects of rocket propellant, gunpowder production and several toxic chemical spills.

To insulate local residents from any groundwater contamination, the Army proposed a solution - a $20 million municipal water system to serve 400 households living near the former plant, the majority in the town of Merrimac. The system would create a separate source of clean water, which would come from a well unaffected by Badger plant contamination. The Army would pay to hook up homes to the system so they would no longer have to rely on private wells that could be at risk for contamination.

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For the entire article, see
http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/govt-and-politics/tapped-out-residents-near-shuttered-badger-army-ammunition-plant-wait/article_b096de26-71d7-5021-b046-18a27f500ed6.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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