March at State Capitol: CCW Calls for Cleanup of Wauleco Dioxin Contamination
- Dioxin, SNE / Wauleco / Sentry Insurance
- March 3, 2024
3/2/24, Madison, WI: Poor People’s Campaign March at State Capitol
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1986 Docs from Dave Obey’s Office Revealed a Dioxin Emergency in Thomas St. Neighborhood
- dave obey, Dioxin, SNE / Wauleco / Sentry Insurance
- crestline, dave obey, david obey, dioxins, pentachlorophenol, sentry insurance, sne, Wauleco - A Sentry Insurance Subsidiary
- May 15, 2021
Archived congressional records acquired from the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point library indicate that, in 1986, there was a dioxin catastrophe of such proportions on Wausau’s southwest side related to the SNE site that the EPA wanted to send in “an emergency response team.” The handwritten notes from Obey’s staffer go on to suggest that the EPA “was ready to …
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Full Stantec Summary of Opinions from WAULECO Contamination Lawsuit
- Dioxin, Pentachlorophenol, SNE / Wauleco / Sentry Insurance
- contamination, dioxins, pentachlorophenol, sentry insurance, thomas street, Wauleco - A Sentry Insurance Subsidiary
- April 10, 2021
According to the WSAW Channel 7, in the past, local residents sued parties related to the former Crestline windows factory along Thomas Street, alleging that pentachlorophenol and dioxins from the site had contaminated the neighborhood on Wausau’s southwest side: “From 1946 to 1986, a product known as Penta was commonly used at the Crestline plant. In 2011, during a special …
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1974 Aerial Imagery of Industrial & Dump Sites on Wausau’s Southwest Side
- 1300 Cleveland Avenue, 3M Company, Connor Forest Industries, Historical Imagery, SNE / Wauleco / Sentry Insurance
- 3m company, 3M Company Wausau, connor forest industries, Wauleco - A Sentry Insurance Subsidiary, wausau
- April 8, 2021
Among sites of interest that can be viewed in the aerial photos are Connor Forest Industries, Crestline (later SNE and WAULECO), 3M Company (aka Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing), and 3M Company’s massive waste dump at the time – now better known as 3M Park. Imagery was flown April 26, 1974 and May 4, 1974 by Aero-Metric Engineering Inc of Sheboygan, …
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Citizens for a Clean Wausau Submits Comments to DNR on WAULECO Remediation
- Pentachlorophenol, SNE / Wauleco / Sentry Insurance
- dioxins, pentachlorophenol, sentry insurance, Wauleco - A Sentry Insurance Subsidiary
- August 13, 2019
Today’s comments urge environmental regulators to add extensive on-site excavation and an off-site pump and treat system to WAULECO’s remediation efforts The DNR is currently reviewing WAULECO’s Remedial Action Alternatives Plan for the next phase of the Thomas Street neighborhood’s groundwater remediation effort. The neighborhood’s groundwater was highly contaminated by pentachlorophenol after decades of its use at the Crestline and …
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City’s Consulting Firm Had WAULECO’s Dioxin Results in 2007
- Historical Documents, SNE / Wauleco / Sentry Insurance
- Wauleco - A Sentry Insurance Subsidiary
- August 3, 2019
In a March 9, 2017, Capital Improvements and Street Maintenance Committee meeting, a resident asked the environmental consultant from AECOM (formerly Earth Tech) what kind of dioxin problem WAULECO had in the past. The consultant responded that it was not dioxin, but pentachlorophenol. However, a 2007 letter sent to the consulting firm regarding Thomas Street Construction from WAULECO’s consultant RMT …
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Father of City’s Environmental Engineer was SNE’s Director of Manufacturing and Material Management
- Historical Documents, SNE / Wauleco / Sentry Insurance
- crestline, sne, Wauleco - A Sentry Insurance Subsidiary
- June 6, 2019
Wausau resident’s reaction at the meeting regarding the City employee’s family connection: “I would have preferred to have had that disclosed.” On Monday, the City of Wausau’s Environmental Engineer — Kevin Fabel — spent nearly 45 minutes presenting an REI report to the Parks Committee which dealt significantly with past Crestline and SNE contamination and how it relates to further …
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WAULECO Lawsuit Memo Related to Neighborhood Penta and Dioxins Now Publicly Available
- Dioxin, Historical Documents, SNE / Wauleco / Sentry Insurance
- Wauleco - A Sentry Insurance Subsidiary
- May 28, 2019
Source: Wisconsin DNR BRRTS The stated purpose of the 2009 memorandum written by a consultant of the plaintiffs’ attorneys was to characterize the WAULECO-related penta and dioxin concentrations that existed in onsite and offsite locations through time. According to the WSAW Channel 7 article, Wausau Residents Sue Over Chemical Contamination, neighborhood residents “sued Wauleco, alleging personal injury and property damage …
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Sentry Alleged “Fraud” in Harris-Crestline Suit Relating to Penta Contamination
- 130 W Thomas Street, Historical Documents, SNE / Wauleco / Sentry Insurance
- crestline, sentry insurance, sne, Wauleco - A Sentry Insurance Subsidiary
- December 17, 2018
Source of Documents: Marathon County Courthouse Court documents stamped “Legal Department Sentry Insurance” with “RECEIVED OCT 29 1984” on them, suggest that after purchasing controlling shares of the company, Sentry later sued select Harris-Crestline former shareholders for claims including “common law intentional fraud” and “negligent misrepresentation” that related to the Thomas Street industrial property’s pentachlorophenol contamination. “Harris-Crestline had reason to …
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DNR Docs: Results Showed Extensive Dioxin Groundwater Contamination in Thomas St. Neighborhood: Part I
- 131 W Thomas Street, Dioxin, Historical Documents, SNE / Wauleco / Sentry Insurance
- Wauleco - A Sentry Insurance Subsidiary
- November 21, 2018
Data provided by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources from WAULECO files, for the period of 1992 to 1998, showed extensive dioxin groundwater contamination in the Thomas Street neighborhood.
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