Current Issues

For more than a year, members of Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) have been working with the Army to secure federal funding to hire a technical consultant to review an Ecological Risk Assessment for one of the largest contaminated sites at Badger Army Ammunition...

SAIPAN – EPA Region 9 has agreed to prohibit open detonation of chemical, radiological, and biological munitions that might be found on Saipan, the largest island and capital of the United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), a chain of 15...

In response to growing concerns about potential air emissions from the recently-reactivated decontamination oven at Badger Army Ammunition Plant, Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger (CSWAB) has asked the Army to voluntarily stop thermal treatment of wastes...

Despite objections from nearby residents, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) has approved capping the source of a massive groundwater contaminant plume that flows several miles beyond the plant boundary to the Wisconsin River just north of the...

In response to increasing concentrations of explosives in groundwater, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and U.S. Army have agreed to install additional groundwater monitoring wells at the northeast corner of Badger...

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...