Ammo plant gets new life as Wis. highway.

* Concrete from the old Badger Army Ammunition Plant The Badger Army Ammunition Plant (BAAAP or Badger) or Badger Ordnance Works (B.O.W.) is an excess, non-BRAC, US Army facility located in Baraboo, Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States. in Baraboo, Wis., will be reused in the reconstruction of part of a central Wisconsin Central Wisconsin is a colloquial term for a region of Wisconsin. This region generally coincides with the Wausau-Rhinelander Television Market. Counties in Central Wisconsin

Adams County
Florence County
Forest County
Langlade County

highway, according to a report in the Duluth News Tribune The Duluth News Tribune (or known locally as The Tribune) is a newspaper in Duluth, Minnesota. It is published by Forum Communications, which bought it in 2006 after The McClatchy Company acquired the News Tribune's previous owner, Knight Ridder. (Duluth, Minn.).

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation The Wisconsin Department of Transportation, abbreviated as WisDOT, is a governmental agency of the U.S. state of Wisconsin responsible for planning, building and maintaining the . (DOT) plans to crush more than 80,000 tons of concrete from the plant's buildings as part of a renovation of Wisconsin Route 78 in two years, according to the report.

According to the Duluth News Tribune, the recently passed federal transportation bill will provide $500,000 for the concrete removal project.

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