[CPEO-MEF] COMMUNITIES: "Merrimac [WI] residents continue calling for action from Army on polluted water"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Merrimac residents continue calling for action from Army on polluted water

By Susan Endres
Baraboo News Republic (WI)
May 6, 2021

The town of Merrimac is “fed up” with the U.S. Army’s inaction toward toxic environmental contamination at the nearby former ammunition factory and is attempting to lobby Congress for direct funding to create a public water system instead, according to Town Administrator Tim McCumber.

“You guys could solve this so easily, but here we are, dragging it on, dragging it on,” McCumber said to Army representatives April 29 in a virtual meeting of the former Badger Army Ammunition Plant’s Restoration Advisory Board.

Local residents and RAB members expressed concern last week about groundwater contamination and other ways the land’s former use could pose a danger to their and their neighbors’ health, as well as the wellbeing of local wildlife. Regular groundwater monitoring has found hazardous levels of contaminants at the site, located roughly halfway between Baraboo and Prairie du Sac.
 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.wiscnews.com/baraboonewsrepublic/news/local/environment/merrimac-residents-continue-calling-for-action-from-army-on-polluted-water/article_1f32d355-f7d3-5034-b785-05cf31650fa7.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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