During a 3-Day CCW Conference in January, Radtke and Kilian Received Unanimous Support to Become the Next Spokespeople Citizens for a Clean Wausau is proud to announce that Randy Radtke and Terry Kilian were selected to be the next Citizens for a Clean Wausau spokespeople during a 3-day group conference at the Jefferson Street Inn in downtown Wausau last month. …
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Results from the City of Wausau’s own September 2020 soil sampling in Riverside Park show that multiple sample locations demonstrated exceedances of state DNR regulatory standards for a non-industrial setting. The City’s environmental consultant, REI Engineering, performed the soil sampling and the analysis of the results which came from Pace Laboratories. REI’s analytical spreadsheet of the latest testing results was …
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Citizens for a Clean Wausau and Over 30 Other Wisconsin Environmental Organizations Call for the State to Require PFAS Testing in Public Drinking Water Systems Per the press release from Midwest Environmental Advocates on October 8, 2020, “a coalition of 34 environmental and public health organizations submitted a letter to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) urging the agency …
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“Pushing Back Against Polluters: Living Room Leadership with Tom Kilian of Citizens for a Clean Wausau” Watch the Full Video Interview Here Citizens for a Clean Wausau’s Tom Kilian was interviewed by the Center for Health, Environment & Justice (CHEJ) as part of a national webinar series developed to continue sharing the stories of community activists and leaders during the …
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This year, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) sent the City of Wausau a Responsible Party letter to investigate and cleanup soil with dioxin levels far lower than were found in Riverside Park years ago. Yet, to this day, no substantive action has been taken by the DNR or City in or by the park where the higher soil …
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According to the DNR letter, the City of Wausau is responsible for the “discharge of a hazardous substance or other environmental pollution.” The letter references 132 River Street as the specific site of contamination. The DNR has confirmed that the pollution in question is dioxin contamination that exceeds state soil standards for a residential setting.
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Results are in from soil samples that were professionally taken for Citizens for a Clean Wausau by Sand Creek Consultants and sent to Pace Analytical — a DNR-certified laboratory — for analysis. Three samples were taken in Riverside Park in November 2019, and the sample with the highest dioxin level — based on TEQ — was five times higher than …
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After a year and a half of community concern and deliberation at City Hall regarding Riverside Park, on Tuesday, October 22, the Wausau City Council approved the request of Citizens for a Clean Wausau (CCW) for access to the park to take soil samples and analyze them for dioxins and furans. Results from 2006 private soil samples near a culvert …
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A proposal which the City may present as a compromise plan now includes only 3 samples (50% of limited samples taken) which may be relevant to the primary concern expressed by the community and council members — the runoff zone near the park’s southern forest. A map of revised boring locations for today’s meeting now show that 50% of them …
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