On behalf of concerned residents, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin has requested and recently received an update on the Army’s pending cleanup of mercury-contaminated sediments at Gruber’s Grove Bay on Lake Wisconsin. The contamination was caused by the direct discharge of...
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has taken the first step in establishing standards for currently unregulated contaminants that threaten the state’s groundwater – the source of drinking water for two-thirds of people living in Wisconsin. The Department’s...
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) has issued a letter to the U.S. Army at Badger Army Ammunition Plant which supports dredging mercury-contaminated sediments that remain in Gruber’s Grove Bay on Lake Wisconsin. The January 23 letter says that...
CSWAB has published a new map summarizing recent groundwater test results for the Badger Army Ammunition Plant area. As part of the September 2017 round of tests, the Army sampled 127 monitoring wells for solvents and the explosive dinitrotoluene (DNT). These wells...
CSWAB petitioned the Wisconsin DNR today to develop drinking water Health Advisory Levels for toxic compounds that have been detected in groundwater at U.S. Army Reserve Fort McCoy and other Wisconsin sites that used industrial fire-fighting foams. The petition is the...
WASHINGTON, DC – CSWAB is pleased to report that representatives of the Cease Fire Campaign are invited speakers at an upcoming national meeting on safer alternatives to open burning/open detonation (OB/OD) of conventional munitions. Steering Committee members...
“I am involved with CSWAB in support of their super efforts to hold government agencies responsible for keeping our water, air, and lands safe and keeping those who have contaminated these resources from just walking away.”
