Mad City Ski Team loves the Law Park landfill! Perhaps we should expand it?
[Above: slide presented at the Lake Monona Waterfront Ad Hoc Committee at its October 19 meeting] ***** When it dumped…
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Lo and behold, Law Park landfill is being dug up right before our eyes!
[All photos by Maria Powell, September 19, 2022] *** Madison’s infamous “hairball” Nolen-Wilson-Willy St intersection was built over an old…
Gee what a surprise! Clean Lakes Alliance presenters neglect to mention Law Park landfill
[Above: Screenshot from the CLA presentation, Wed. September 14] ******* Curiously, the presentation by Allen Arntsen and Mike Sturm at…
Are contractors pumping PFAS & toxic Law Park landfill leachates into Lake Monona?
[Photo above and all photos in this post by Maria Powell] ******** Some of this is an excerpt from the…
The City of Madison says it has no Law Park landfill records. Really?
[Image above from City of Madison website] ****** As described in detail in the last post, from the 1930s to…
“What Else Can Hurt Lake Monona?” Part I: Law Park is a landfill
**** [This piece will likely be edited/added to in coming days…] On August 15, 2022, Dean Mosiman of the Wisconsin…
Postscript to Part IV: What about DNR’s municipal stormwater laws?
[Above, looking south down S. Fairchild: Madison’s City-County Building on the left, City Engineering/Stormwater Program offices on the first floor…
“What Else Can Hurt Lake Monona?” Part II: Let’s build Monona Terrace on top of a carcinogen-leaching landfill in the lake!
[Above: Trucks on shoreline as Monona Terrace construction begins at Law Park in 1995. Photo of a photo in DNR…
WSJ wins doublespeak prize: Toxic leaching landfill = Hot fishing spot for Black people!
[People from Milwaukee fishing “the wall” at Monona Terrace in July 2022. Photo-Maria Powell] *** “Celebrity, swag, people and cash”…
Miracle! Or magic? Design teams can fix Lake Monona!
[Above: Vision for the future of the Lake Monona shoreline, from Agency Landscape & Planning] ~~~ Big news! Three finalists…
“What Else Can Hurt Lake Monona?” Part IV: Oops! Monona Terrace is not a model stormwater control facility after all
{Above-Monona Terrace, September 2022. Photo-Maria Powell ~~~ See the postscript to this piece As described in Part III, Monona Terrace…
“What Else Can Hurt Lake Monona?” Part III: “Unimaginable toxic horrors” remain unmeasured
[Above: People fishing at Monona Terrace over the Law Park Landfill. Photo-Maria Powell] ~~~ [W]hen government shifts from merely presenting…
Lessons from the past: Beware the Chamber of Commerce Juggernaut!
In the 1990s, a powerful Chamber of Commerce Juggernaut finally made Frank Lloyd Wright’s Monona Terrace happen after decades of…
Monona Terrace, model stormwater pollution control facility?
[Above: View looking east from the top of Monona Terrace on Sept. 25, 2022. Photo-Maria Powell] *** Previous posts described…
What else is buried under Monona Terrace? “Illegal Gambling Devices”
[Above, 1948 photo titled “Smashing Illegal Gambling Devices,” from Wisconsin State Historical Society Archives. Caption: “Destroying slot machines and other…