For more than two years, CSWAB has been asking state officials to investigate a WDNR report that levels of mercury in the air near Badger Army Ammunition Plant may be elevated. Technical experts agree that more can be done to identify and mitigate potential sources...
Until more families have been exposed to unsafe levels of carcinogens in their drinking water, state officials said that rural neighbors of the Badger Army Ammunition Plant are not a priority. In a meeting with Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR)...
Improper handling of asbestos at Badger Army Ammunition Plant has placed the health of workers and contractors at risk, according to a formal Notice of Violation issued to the Army by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources on October 10. The violations were...
Earlier this year, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) assured rural neighbors of Badger Army Ammunition Plant that their wells were free of the explosive dinitrotoluene (DNT). The WDNR said that the reported detections of the suspected human...
CSWAB began as a “kitchen table” organization when rural neighbors discovered their drinking water wells were polluted with high levels of carcinogenic solvents. Carbon tetrachloride, trichloroethylene, and chloroform were detected in the water supplies...
Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger has found that historical use of road oil at Wisconsin’s Badger Army Ammunition Plant can be substantiated and that an investigation of the potential environmental and human health consequences is warranted. This report...
“We are proud to tout the community organizing of CSWAB as one of the earliest successes of our statewide grant making program. CSWAB blew the whistle on an environmentally unjust situation and continues the fight till this day. Thank you for protecting the land and people of Wisconsin.”
