According to public records available on the Wisconsin DNR’s website, 3M Company received a Responsible Party Letter from state regulators related to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) identified at its Wausau Greystone Quarry. The Responsible Party letter is dated March 10, 2025, and it can be accessed directly on the government’s website. The DNR website page for this new …
According to public records available on the DNR’s website related to 700 Grand Avenue vacant parcels, regulators have given conceptual approval to the site’s Investigation Workplan. The full DNR letter to 700 Grand Apartments, LLC — which is dated January 2, 2025 — is embedded below or can be downloaded directly from this government link. The letter conveys that …
According to records on the DNR’s Bureau for Remediation and Redevelopment Tracking System (BRRTS), the City of Wausau received a Responsible Party Letter from the DNR for the vacant parcels associated with 700 Grand Avenue. The letter from the DNR is dated November 20, 2024, and is addressed to Kevin Fabel, the City’s environmental engineer. The full letter can …
While the City of Wausau already sued 3M Company and other manufacturers for PFAS contamination in its municipal water supply, now a federal regulatory agency has submitted a formal information request to 3M regarding PFAS contamination identified in Wausau City Wells as far back as 2019. High PFAS water levels had been discovered at the 3M Greystone plant last …
Data posted on the EPA’s online enforcement and compliance tool, ECHO, shows that 3M Company in Wausau’s Thomas Street neighborhood received two new recent Notices of Violation for High Priority Clean Air Act Violations. The dates listed for the Notices of Violation are 3/29/24 and 5/2/24. Per the EPA data, the violations relate to elements such as Volatile Organic …
Another Year of Historic Citizen-Driven Action and Research. Riverside Park Finally Remediated 17 Years After First Dioxin Soil Samples in 2006. 2023 was a special year. It not only marked the 5-year anniversary of Citizens for a Clean Wausau’s founding in 2018, but also encompassed major community progress on multiple critical local environmental fronts. A list of CCW’s 2023 news …
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DNR Pages for Sites of Interest on Wausau’s Southwest Side