Oct 5, 2010 | issues
The State of Wisconsin has adopted groundwater standards for previously-unregulated munitions contaminants that set national precedents for the protection of public health and the environment. Wisconsin is the first state to establish groundwater standards for all six...
Oct 1, 2010 | issues
If area residents accept a proposed municipal water supply system, the military has announced that it will ask the WDNR for permission to shut down a huge groundwater extraction system that currently stops toxins from flowing into groundwater and the nearby Lower...
Sep 24, 2010 | issues
The explosive compound dinitrotoluene (DNT) has been detected in another residential well in the town of Merrimac – a scenario that neighbors of Badger Army Ammunition Plant say could have been avoided if the military and environmental regulators had been proactive....
Sep 13, 2010 | issues
Open Burning and Thermal Treatment of Munitions-Contaminated Wastes Campaign Status Report Burning Proposed Beginning in 2000, the Army began pressing for approval to burnundreds of old buildings at Wisconsin’s Badger Army Ammunition Plant – a proposal hat even...
Jul 7, 2010 | issues
CSWAB Presses for Swift Response and Better Testing Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger is pressing the Army and state regulators for a swift response to new laboratory test results showing that concentrations of explosives and other contaminants are rapidly...
May 20, 2010 | issues
Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger has discovered that exceedingly high levels of the carcinogenic explosive Dinitrotoluene (DNT) have been detected in groundwater at the southern boundary of Badger Army Ammunition Plant in the rural township of Sumpter. CSWAB...
