Wisconsin PCB Sludge May Have Found A Home

Date: May 11, 2004

Source: News Room

From the 1950s to the 1970s, seven paper mills released PCBs into Wisconsin's Fox River during the manufacture of carbonless copy paper. A cleanup plan for the PCBs has worked its way through various levels of state and federal bureaucracy, and plans are now afoot to bury the PCB-tainted sediment near the Town of Chilton. Even with the new agreement, Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle has announced plans to investigate melting the sludge rather than burying it.

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