[CPEO-BIF] Renard Isle, Brown County, Wisconsin

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State rejects Renard Isle proposal

DNR wants more details on Brown County's plan

By Paul Brinkmann
Green Bay Press-Gazette (WI)
March 12, 2006

Neighborhood groups are claiming victory in a battle to ensure pollution 
from Renard Isle is cleaned up properly.

A proposal to continue using the manmade island as storage for 
contaminated soil has been sent back to Brown County for more work — a 
lot more work.

"I thought we were going to lose out to politics, but the state realized 
we weren't exaggerating our concern about the environment," said Bill 
Acker, a member of the Nicolet Drive Neighborhood Association, which 
opposed the county's plan for the island.

Renard is a 55-acre island at the mouth of the Fox River. The U.S. Army 
Corps of Engineers wants to turn over ownership of the island to Brown 
County. The biggest problem with the island is PCB contamination — 
polychlorinated biphenyls that are a probable cancer-causing chemical.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060312/GPG0101/603120690/1207/GPGnews

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org

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