In a formal letter to WDNR Secretary Adam Payne today, Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger (CSWAB) asks that the Department require the U.S. Army, as the acknowledged responsible party, to incorporate PFAS and other emerging contaminants in its pending...
WISCONSIN – Representatives of local government, impacted residents and environmental groups serving on the Badger Restoration Advisory Board have co-signed a formal resolution calling on the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) to order improved testing...
If it feels like nothing has happened in the last few years in terms of cleanup at Badger Army Ammunition Plant – it’s because nothing much has happened. Seriously – we checked. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR), has not received any of the...
CSWAB Comments on the November 2019 Draft Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study (RI/FS) for Site-Wide Groundwater Contamination at the former Badger Army Ammunition Plant January 21, 2020 BACKGROUND The Army’s preferred alternative or remedy for groundwater...
The detection of unsafe levels of explosives in a rural drinking water well near the former Badger Army Ammunition Plant has prompted State regulators to call for quick action to address expanding groundwater contamination caused by the U.S. Army. The May 15 letter...
“The military is the nation’s number one polluter. The folks at CSWAB have taken on a formidable foe and shown how communities can play an important role in protecting human health and the environment from military waste problems.”
Al Gedicks
Executive Secretary, Wisconsin Resources Protection Council