Aug 16, 2026 | issues
By Joe Block, Independent Star News, Front page, August 6, 2026 WISCONSIN – Investigations into an August 2020 prescribed burn at the former Badger Army Ammunition Plant that raged out of control and produced “multicolored smoke and high-intensity flames,...
Oct 9, 2025 | issues
By Madeline Heim and Laura Schulte / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Oct. 8, 2025 NORTH FREEDOM, WI – 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...
Aug 10, 2025 | issues
By Joe Block, The Independent Star News, July 31, 2025 (Images added by CSWAB.org) As Army officials continue the bureaucratic process involved with the cleanup of the former Badger Army Ammunition Plant in southeastern Sauk County, they held a public information...
Jan 7, 2025 | issues
The U.S. Army Environmental Command has informed the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) that it will NOT comply with the State’s enforceable groundwater standards for certain cancer-causing chemicals that have migrated to groundwater. For decades,...
Jul 15, 2024 | issues
Merrimac Township, WI – The U.S. Army has identified a landfill at the former Badger Army Ammunition Plant as a likely source of PFAS contamination detected in groundwater in the rural Town of Merrimac. Landfill 3646 received soil from the firefighting training...
Jun 25, 2024 | issues
Environmental and public health groups are attacking EPA’s proposed rule on open burning/open detonation (OB/OD) of waste munitions, saying that if the agency will not back their long-running calls for a total ban on the practice it must at least strengthen elements...
