[CPEO-MEF] Sauk County (WI) may seek funds for Badger AAP study

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Board may push for funds

By Bridan D. Bridgeford
Baraboo News Republic (WI)
February 22, 2007

Sauk County Board members will decide tonight if they want to urge 
federal officials to earmark money to better track groundwater 
contamination from the obsolete Badger Army Ammunition Plant.

During Tuesday's Sauk County Executive and Legislative Committee 
meeting, Planning and Zoning Director Lance Gurney presented a 
resolution appealing for federal funds for a thorough analysis of water 
around the obsolete gunpowder production facility. The analysis is 
necessary to track the spread of chemicals, primarily dinitrotoluene or 
DNT, which contaminated the plant's soil when it was active during World 
War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, he said.

Gurney provided a map of tests done last fall which shows spots on the 
BAAP grounds and neighboring lands where DNT has been detected in 
amounts of a millionth of a gram per liter or less. One spot is outside 
the plant to the northeast, while most are south of the plant along Lake 
Wisconsin and toward the village of Prairie du Sac.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.wiscnews.com/bnr/news/120060

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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