Today, more than 260 people – representing more than 100 environmental and social justice organizations from the U.S. and its territories – co-signed an open letter calling on U.S. EPA Administrator Michael Regan to end the dangerous practice of open air burning and...
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) has asked the U.S. Army at Badger Army Ammunition Plant to reinstate annual testing of certain monitoring wells at the northeastern edge of a groundwater contaminant plume in the Town of Merrimac. The Central Plume...
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: Nov 1, 2011 and Updated Jul 1, 2012 By Tim Damos, News Republic State regulators temporarily have withdrawn a requirement that the military expand soil testing at the Badger Army Ammunition Plant near Baraboo. The decision allows the Army and its...
The 300-acre Settling Ponds Area spans more than 2 miles along the southern boundary of the former Badger Army Ammunition Plant. During active production years, these ponds received sanitary and industrial wastewater from the entire facility and surface runoff from...
Today, CSWAB petitioned the Wisconsin DNR for a reassessment of the state’s Groundwater Health Advisory Level (HAL) for a PFAS chemical known as PFBS. If approved, the toxicological review is expected to reduce the State’s current HAL from 450,000 ppt (parts per...
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