Badger is an iron foundry that produces castings by pouring molten metal into molds.
This new reclamation equipment will enable Badger to reuse sand in its foundry process. Installation of new equipment corrected those air quality violations. In 1997 and 1998, MPCA staff inspectors found solid waste violations at Badger. The company disposed waste at this site from 1982 until 1997. Improper disposal stopped and waste is now hauled to recycling and properly permitted landfill sites until Badger's new reclamation equipment can be used.