Oct 5, 2006 | issues
CAMPAIGN STATUS REPORT Burning Proposed Beginning in 2000, the Army began pressing for approval to burn hundreds of old buildings at Wisconsin’s Badger Army Ammunition Plant – a proposal that even the military admitted was not “environmentally friendly”. The Army...
Aug 7, 2006 | issues
SUMMARY: Burning PCBs Will Set National Precedent FACT SHEET: Burning PCBs Will Set Dangerous Precedent FACT SHEET: Alternatives to Open Burning NEW JERSEY BURNS LEAVE TOXIC LEGACY NATIONAL COALITION OPPOSES MILITARY EXEMPTION PHOTOGRAPHS OF PCB PAINT AT BADGER MORE...
Aug 7, 2006 | issues
Merrimac, WI – CSWAB is urging the WDNR to immediately expand testing of private drinking water wells near the northeast corner of Badger Army Ammunition Plant in the Town of Merrimac. The recommendation follows confirmation of explosives in groundwater monitoring...
Jul 24, 2006 | issues
According to a report released today by Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger (CSWAB), state regulators are allowing the Army to leave higher than previously-approved levels of lead in soils at Badger Army Ammunition Plant – a move that could place the health of...
Jul 17, 2006 | issues
In 2002, three-quarter-mile-long Load Line 1 was set ablaze at Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant, filling the prairie sky with thick black smoke. A total of 4 load lines have been targeted for open burning. The Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality did not...
Apr 24, 2006 | issues
Even though levels of trichloroethene (TCE) in groundwater are at an all time high in a monitoring well on the far west side of Badger Army Ammunition Plant (adjacent to the Bluffview Community in the Township of Sumpter), the WDNR remains unwilling to ask the Army to...