[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: "USGS reviewing progress of cleanup at former Badger ammunition plant" (WI)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

USGS reviewing progress of cleanup at former Badger ammunition plant

by AUTUMN LUEDKE 
Sauk Prairie Eagle (WI)
May 21, 2018

An independent review of the U.S. Army’s cleanup efforts at the former Badger Army Ammunitions Plant in Prairie du Sac is currently underway.

The announcement was made during a public information meeting hosted by the Army May 16 at the Sauk City Public Library. Joan Jackson, a representative of the Army, called the United States Geological Survey “our nationwide experts in groundwater” and said the Army has provided the USGS with all data pertaining to the former ammunition plant site.

In November, groundwater results for the former Badger Army Ammunition Plant area showed although slowly decreasing, unsafe levels of dinitrotoluene continue to be detected in the northeast corner of the former ammunition site in the town of Merrimac.
 

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For the entire article, see
http://www.wiscnews.com/saukprairieeagle/news/local/usgs-reviewing-badger-army-ammunition-plant-cleanup-progress/article_c279a855-85ac-5d97-bd7a-f9d39f6a49e6.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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