Oliver Burrows of 1230 WXCO’s Hometown Morning interviewed Shereen Siewert, Editor of the Wausau Pilot & Review, on November 1, 2018. The full program can be found on WXCO’s website. The interview addressed Siewert’s recent article: Toxic secrets: Pollution, evasion and fear in Wausau’s River Street neighborhood. Burrows and Siewert also discussed the issue of the historical …
Near the current culvert area, in 1986, after numerous waste disposal and storage facilities stated they would not accept SNE’s dioxin-containing waste, official records show that the company then used a building on the western border of Riverside Park to store the drums. A diagram from DNR files shows that it had the capacity to store 136 drums of this …
From an SNE Memo, Then Labeled Confidential. Source: Marathon County Courthouse “Pentachlorophenol does contain HxCDD which is a dioxin. It is not as harmful as the dioxins found at Times Beach, Missouri or Agent Orange, but the one word, carcinogen, makes this a very important issue.” — Memo from Pete Nygaard of SNE (A Sentry Enterprise) to Howard Dolce, …
The EPA’s Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool. It is based on nationally consistent data and an approach that combines environmental and demographic indicators in maps and reports.
An air permit search tool from the Department of Natural Resources. Search for information on individual permits, and copies of permits and related records.
DNR Pages for Sites of Interest on Wausau’s Southwest Side