WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) – An earmark from Senator Tammy Baldwin in a just-completed government funding bill will bring $3.3 million to fight forever chemicals in the drinking water in Wausau and Rib Mountain.
A report from the Wausau Pilot & Review says Baldwin included the line item in the omnibus bill last week.
Senator Baldwin’s state press secretary Alana Conley told the Pilot & Review that the Wausau money will be used to “investigate, assess and implement PFAS treatment or alternative drinking water options. ” The Rib Mountain money will be used to “construct a water treatment plant that will remove PFAS from municipal supply wells.”
The government funding bill was approved in the U.S. Senate, 68-29. The House passed the measure, 225-201.
Omnibus spending bills do not go through the regular committee approval process, meaning that members of both parties often add items that are pet projects or are specific to their states or districts. The spending package was passed in the closing hours before the U.S. government ran out of spending and borrowing authority, and was signed shortly thereafter by President Biden.
