[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Sampling at Badger Ammo Plant (WI)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

'Left us here high and dry': Merrimac residents ask Army to do more for safe water
Merrimac demands clean water from army

By Amy Reid 
WISC TV-News 3 (Madison, WI)
September 13, 2018 
    

MERRIMAC, Wis. - Laura Olah has been studying water contamination in her town of Merrimac for 28 years, which is as long as she said it's been a problem.

She started as a mother of three young kids, and now she heads Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger, a group that advocates for cleanup of contaminants from the nearby Badger Army Ammunition Plant that have leached into the groundwater supply.

She keeps a map of the plant that shows the path of four plumes of chemicals, growing increasingly large and moving toward the Wisconsin River, but there's at least one group of chemicals she doesn't know the path of: PFAS. She hopes to change that.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.channel3000.com/news/-left-us-here-high-and-dry-merrimac-residents-ask-army-to-do-more-for-safe-water/794754749

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Lenny Siegel
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