“Forgotten” Kipp Toxic Hotspot Bubbles to the Surface Next to Goodman Community Center
Now that the neighborhood class action lawsuit against Kipp is settled [1] and Madison-Kipp has paid a total of $7.2 million…
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EPA-funded report recommends pollutant testing for Madison community center
Photo: View from inside the Goodman Center’s Ironworks Cafe, looking out to the Kipp factory loading docks. A report from…
EPA fines Madison-Kipp for air violations; Goodman Center gets A/C in the deal!
[ABOVE] The view of Madison-Kipp Corp. from the Goodman Community Center; PCBs are being removed from the rain garden in the…
More Alarming PCB Hotspots Along City Bike Path Next to Goodman Center; Public in the Dark
Kipp’s Sludge Garden Saga continues… an Arcadis (Kipp’s consultants) report dated August 6, 2014 includes data generated in April and May of…
More Unanswered Kipp Questions: Was KLS Lubriquip at the Goodman site in the Past?
Madison-Kipp Corporation originated as Kipp Lubricator Company in 1898. Kipp’s lubricator operations were later called Kipp Lubricator Systems (KLS), KLS…
PCEs with your Pie, Anyone? Toxic Plume Under Goodman Center Still Ignored…
A couple weeks ago, I had lunch with a friend in the Ironworks Café at the Goodman Community Center. The food…
Kipp’s Contaminant Plume Under Goodman Center–Are Children Exposed? Nobody Knows…
Documents from Madison Kipp’s consultants, released by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) June 21, 2013, show that Kipp’s…
MEJO Investigates: Contamination at Goodman – Remediation plan being followed?
The Goodman Community Center, behind Madison-Kipp Corp. on Waubesa Street, opened its doors in 2009 in a renovated factory with…
Community Center and School At-Risk
Madison-Kipp Sued by State and Cited by EPA Madison’s oldest polluter, Madison-Kipp Corp, is being sued by the State of…
Are eastside Madison residents breathing poisonous vapors? Does anyone care?
[Above–how chlorinated compounds in soils and shallow groundwater can rise up (vaporize) into homes and businesses above them — a…
Lo and behold, the Madison-Kipp poison plume is still there!
[Above: June 2021 plume map of PCE emanating from Madison-Kipp Corp, north-south cross section/isocontour. Where is Madison-Kipp? Above the solid…
People’s Environmental History of Madison
I am still working on the People’s Environmental History of Madison, but rarely post excerpts here. If you are interested…
Anne G. Chacon, 1942-2018
Dissident, Fearless Environmental Activist, Great Friend Anne Chacon, long-time resident of 138 S. Marquette St, passed away in her Monona…
Kipp’s Carcinogenic Chemicals Still Vaporizing into Surrounding Neighborhood
The class action lawsuit against Madison Kipp Corporation, settled in 2013, seems like eons ago. Have Kipp’s pollution problems been…
Madison-Kipp’s pollution cleanup is nowhere near complete: Part I–Groundwater
Photo: Toxic permanganate discharge from Kipp groundwater extraction and treatment system (GETS) on Aug. 9, 2015 ***** On December 20 2015 the…