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Waunakee awarded $837,000 grant for site cleanup; consultants and village staff credited for application
Summary
Committee members announced that the Waunakee cleanup site has been awarded a federal/state grant of $837,000. Village staff and consultants, including Ayers Associates and environmental attorney Vanessa Weyert, were credited for preparing the successful application.
Committee member Kristen Runge announced that the village has been awarded a grant to clean up the "Waunakee Clean" site, totaling $837,000.
Runge said, "The Waunakee site has been awarded a grant of $837,000 to clean up. So that is a huge load off our shoulders financially and then also, environmentally and for the health of the community." She told the committee the result was better than expected given uncertainty at the federal level.
Kristen and others credited the grant application team. Runge named Ayers Associates (an engineering consultant) and staff members Lauren Dietz and Vanessa Weyert, an environmental attorney from Stafford, as contributors to the application. A committee member added that "great application, we're very happy." No formal action was required; the announcement was shared as positive fiscal and environmental news for the village.
Staff indicated the consultant team led by Ayers and internal staff coordinated the application; the grant will fund remediation work described in the village materials and will reduce direct village expenditures for the cleanup.
No specifics about the grant source authority, specific cleanup schedule or implementation contract were provided in the meeting aside from the award amount and the team credited with preparing the request.
