In written comments submitted today, Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger (CSWAB) is challenging the U.S. Army and the Wisconsin DNR to require additional environmental cleanup at the closing Badger Army Ammunition Plant before portions of the property are...
Merrimac, WI – A carcinogenic explosive which has been found in drinking water wells near the Badger Army Ammunition Plant should have lower standards than those proposed by the Wisconsin Division of Public Health (WDPH), a local environmental group says. According...
The Pentagon intends to challenge Wisconsin in regulating all forms of the explosive dinitrotoluene (DNT), Army officials announced on Monday. Wisconsin is the first state in the nation to establish health-based guidelines for the pervasive military toxin that has...
Explosives contamination from the closing Badger Army Ammunition Plant continues to plague groundwater in an area extending from Weigand’s Bay in Merrimac to the Village of Prairie du Sac. The detected explosive is dinitrotoluene (DNT), a suspected human carcinogen...
Thousands of Wisconsin’s wells have been sampled and of the 59 different volatile organic compounds detected in Wisconsin’s groundwater, trichloroethylene (TCE) is the most common. Local environmental group Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger (CSWAB) has joined...
Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger (CSWAB) is challenging a WDNR proposal to cover up readily-accessible contamination at a major hazardous waste disposal site at Badger Army Ammunition Plant. Contaminated soils at the Propellant Burning Grounds are the source of...
“As former Executive Director of the Military Toxics Project, I came to respect and appreciate Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger for work that was not only important to their own local issues, but to the advancement of preventative solutions to military toxics issues all over the country.”
Cathy Lemar
Former Executive Director, Military Toxics Project
