The Office of the Secretary of the Army recently submitted its report to the Senate Appropriations Committee on the status of environmental cleanup at Badger Army Ammunition Plant. The May 16 report, requested by U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin, affirms the military’s previous determination that the proposed construction and operation of a municipal drinking water system is outside the Army’s authority.
“The municipal drinking water system was not being proposed to address unacceptable risk to human health and was not contemplated to treat contamination from Army operations at the former Badger AAP,” the Army stated.
The Army has prepared a new Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study (RI/FS) to evaluate the best remedy for groundwater contamination at Badger that is currently under Army review. The Army anticipates completing its review by mid-June 2018 and will then provide the draft report to WDNR and the community for review.
The Army also reported that Gruber’s Grove Bay sediments will be re-sampled in early summer 2018 to delineate remaining contamination, and that a plan to remove those contaminated sediments is projected to be finalized and provided to WDNR in late summer 2018. A sediment removal project is scheduled for 2019.
Army Report to Senate Committee on Badger AAP Cleanup 16 May 2018