Current Issues
CSWAB Supports New Rules to Protect Wisconsin’s Bats
The Wisconsin Natural Resources board has approved a permanent set of rules to slow the spread of white-nose syndrome in Wisconsin bats. The rules classify four cave bats as threatened, list the fungus linked to the disease as an invasive species, and require cave and...
CSWAB in the News
CSWAB’s letter to state officials calling for a comprehensive ban on the use of the herbicide atrazine to protect expectant mothers and infants from exposure prompted a front page story in the Wisconsin State Journal this week. At the December 7 public hearing in...
CSWAB Receives Commendations for 20 Years of Service
In recognition of 20 years of service protecting communities and the environment, Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger (CSWAB) is pleased to announce that the organization and its Executive Director have recently received 10 commendations from federal, state, tribal...
Coalition Says Children at Risk from Atrazine Exposures
A statewide coalition organized by Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger is calling for a comprehensive ban or other significant action to protect expectant mothers and infants from exposure to the herbicide atrazine in groundwater. “The current approach consistently...
CSWAB Victory Sets National Precedents for Munitions Cleanups
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...
Toxins Could Flow into Riverway if Army Stops Cleanup
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...
Explosives Found in Rural Merrimac Well
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....
Healthy Communities Campaign: Open Burning and Thermal Treatment of Munitions-Contaminated Wastes
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 the...
Badger Groundwater Contamination at All Time High
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...
Army Finds Dangerous Levels of Explosives in Sumpter Groundwater
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...
Army Gags Badger RAB Members
Army officials have ordered rural neighbors of Wisconsin’s Badger Army Ammunition Plant to suppress an environmental report by an independent consultant working with the local Restoration Advisory Board (RAB). “Immediately following last night’s public meeting, an...
Soil Contamination Could Trump Future Uses at Badger
The U.S. Army has proposed limiting camping and other future uses in lieu of cleanup for certain areas at Badger Army Ammunition Plant. If approved by state regulators, the request will relieve the Army of its responsibility to clean up soil contamination on land...