MADISON, WI (WTAQ) – A $1 million loan from the Board of Commissioners of Public Land’s State Trust Fund will go to help cap a local high school’s contaminated playing field.
The Ashwaubenon School District says some of its athletic fields at the high school have been closed after testing found potentially harmful PCBs in the ground.
According to the Wisconsin DNR, the chemical possibly came from carbonless paper sludge or electrical transformers. Those fields in question were built on top of a one-time landfill.
District officials said the PCBs were found when plans were put in place for the new football stadium.
The BCPL operates without taxpayer money and distributes to Wisconsin public schools more than 96 cents of every dollar of interest earned on trust fund investments, according to a news release.
