Dane County Airport’s “EcoMentality” = Doublespeak + Magical Thinking
[Above: giant storm drain that receives stormwater runoff from one of the most contaminated areas at Dane County Regional Airport…
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What is “progressive” Dane County doing about the PFAS oozing from the airport & burn pits?
[Above: Starkweather Creek storm drains from Dane County Regional Airport; photo Maria Powell] ****** Last October, Wisconsin Watch published “Something…
Will ANYONE ever clean up the PFAS-soaked burn pits at the Dane County Airport?
Above: Dane County Regional Airport development sign in front of the unremediated Darwin burn pit site. ***** This post may…
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Dane County Airport’s WPDES permit is expired and doesn’t mention PFAS. Why?
Over two and a half years ago, June 2018, we asked DNR to include PFAS monitoring in Dane County airport’s…
Dane County Regional Airport
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
PFCs or PFAS
Starkweather Creek
Toxic Chemicals
Truax
Water Pollution
How much PFAS is oozing down Starkweather Creek from Dane County Regional Airport & Truax base??
Starkweather Creek flowing through the Darbo Worthington neighborhood, about a mile south of the airport and military base. See readable…
DNR orders new plan to stop spread of PFAS at Madison airport after experimental treatment fails
Starkweather Creek flowing from the Dane County Regional Airport By Chris Hubbuch, Wisconsin State Journal The Department of Natural Resources…
Air National Guard
Dane County Regional Airport
Fish
PFCs or PFAS
Risk Assessment
Starkweather Creek
stormwater runoff
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Truax
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Wisconsin DNR
Report: Dane County airport stormwater contributing PFAS to Starkweather Creek
By Chris Chubbuch, Wisconsin State Journal New data show the Dane County Regional Airport is contributing significant amounts of hazardous…
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City of Madison
Dane County
PFCs or PFAS
Starkweather Creek
stormwater runoff
Toxic Chemicals
Truax
Dane County airport burn pit contamination began in the 1950s
PHOTO: Former Dane County airport fire pit being excavated to build a parking lot in May 2018. The County, City,…
City of Madison
Deception
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Public Health Madison Dane County
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Wisconsin DNR
PFAS “at levels of concern” in Starkweather Creek? What does this mean?
MEJO’s Touyeng Xiong stands next to PFAS “advisory” sign next to heavily PFAS-contaminated Starkweather Creek just downstream of the Dane…
The only place low income people can afford to live in Madison? Whose fault is that?
[Above: the abandoned Oscar Mayer factory, from the south. On the left side of the photo, you can see the…
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…
Lessons not learned by the Madison Water Utility?
A report compiled by Stacker was published in the Wisconsin State Journal today–Covert contamination: when organizations have failed to notify…
Trees are to blame for the sorry state of our lakes!
[Above: Egregious sources of pollution on Madison’s north side. Photo-Maria Powell] ***** According to our favorite local corporate greenwashers, Clean…
DNR powerless as burn pit RPs are “snarled in negotiations” for 33 (and counting) years?
[Above, Dane County Regional Airport constructing a cell phone lot in 2018 where the heavily contaminated Darwin burn pit was…
“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…