CRANDON, WI (WSAU-WXPR) – Governor Tony Evers proposed spending $106-million in the state budget to address PFAS issues in Wisconsin.
It’s not yet known how much Republicans will dedicate to the issue, but there has been bipartisan support for action.
He visited Northern Lake Service in Crandon Wednesday.
Evers says he wants to see testing and remediation prioritized when it comes to PFAS in the budget. “It is making sure are doing testing, first of all. And second of all, I think the technology changing over time about how to rid water of that, but we have to know where it is.”
Northern Lakes Service is the only private lab in Wisconsin certified to test for PFAS, according to President RT Krueger. It employs more than 30 people in Crandon. All of whom have been extremely busy since it’s now required all municipalities test public water supplies for PFAS in Wisconsin. “This has all been jammed into one year. It’s an extensive workload ontop of some the other regulatory cycles that are really keeping us busy. It’s great to be busy. It would just be nice if busyness was spread out a little bit more.”
PFAS chemicals have been found in drinking water in Rhinelander and Wausau as well as private wells in the Starks area of Oneida County.
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