[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: DNT-related testing at Badger plant (WI)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Advisory board seeks improved testing


By Laura Olah
Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger
April 28, 2008

In response to concerns about the presence of explosives in groundwater 
surrounding the Badger Army Ammunition Plant, members of the local 
Restoration Advisory Board are urging the Army to improve test methods 
for nearby residential wells.

The laboratory methods currently used by the Army do not test for all of 
the potential degradation products of dinitrotoluene (DNT).

At the April 9 public meeting at Badger, representatives of the Ho-Chunk 
Nation, Sauk County, villages of Merrimac and Prairie du Sac, Merrimac 
and Prairie du Sac townships, and surrounding rural neighborhoods voted 
in favor of a resolution which urges the Army to "immediately add 
targeted analysis for all degradation products of DNT for all 
groundwater and drinking water samples."

"It is important for people to know what is in their drinking water," 
said Mary Jane Koch, a resident who lives in an area where low levels of 
DNT have been detected in groundwater.

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For the entire column, see
http://www.wiscnews.com/spe/opinion/282799

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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