[CPEO-MEF] Badger Plant (WI) concrete to become highway

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Badger Plant gets new life in highway
Recycled material becomes road base

By Anita Weier
The Capital Times (WI)
August 6, 2005

Recycling will become a high art in the reconstruction of Wisconsin 78
from Prairie du Sac through Merrimac.

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation plans to use ground-up
concrete from buildings at the Badger Army Ammunition Plant near Baraboo
for a road base when the highway is improved in 2007 to make it less accident-prone.

The 7,350-acre plant, developed in 1942 to make munitions for World War
II and later wars, was placed in standby mode in 1975 and declared
excess property in late 1997. An extensive re-use planning process
followed before it was decided that the site would be divided between
the state Department of Natural Resources, the Ho-Chunk Nation and the
Dairy Forage Research Center.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.madison.com/tct/news/index.php?ntid=49670&ntpid=1

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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
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