Photo: former Dane County burn pit at 1750 Pearson Street
By Steve Verburg, Wisconsin State Journal
Despite the lack of funding for a military cleanup, Madison and Dane County have declined to spend local tax dollars to speed up pollution investigations of two firefighter training areas near the Wisconsin Air National Guard’s Truax Field on the city’s North Side.
Based on decades of shifting ownership and usage, the cost of cleaning up the two sites eventually could be shared by the two local governments and the National Guard.
Last summer, all three agreed that the military would conduct an initial investigation of the sites — called burn pits — where flammable material was set on fire and then smothered with toxic PFAS foam. However, the National Guard says it doesn’t have money to pay for an investigation.
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