[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE, CLEANUP: "Army still hasn't removed toxic waste from [Badger] ammunition plant, " WI

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

50 years, $229 million, and Army still hasn't removed toxic waste from ammunition plant

By Madeline Heim and Laura Schulte
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI)
October 8, 2025

NORTH FREEDOM - The sprawling grounds of the former Badger Army Ammunition Plant in Sauk County are largely peaceful, long transformed from what was once the world’s largest manufacturer of smokeless gunpowder and rocket propellant for wartime. 

Many area residents still have ties to the plant, including Charles Wilhelm, who worked there after a stint in the Navy in the mid-20th century. 

Today, the plant's legacy is why he won't drink his tap water. 

Toxic chemicals produced at the plant leached into the soil and then the groundwater. The problem was first noted as far back as the late 1970s. Wilhelm and his neighbors have lived through a decades-long effort by the Army to clean the mess up.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2025/10/08/pollutants-remain-for-decades-at-former-badger-army-ammunition-plant/85938946007/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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http://www.cpeo.org
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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