Dane County “fixing to get ready” to do something about burn pits
[Above: surface water flowing through the highly contaminated Darwin burn pit area (adjacent to the airport cell phone lot) into…
Search Results for: burn pits
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…
Air National Guard
City of Madison
Dane County
Department of Defense
Environmental health
PFCs or PFAS
Starkweather Creek
Truax
Wisconsin DNR
Again, Madison and Dane County pass the buck to the military on cleaning up burn pits. Why?
The highly contaminated Darwin Road burn pit area at the Dane County Regional Airport was used by the city, county,…
City of Madison
Dane County
Fish
Madison Water Utility
PFCs or PFAS
Risk Assessment
Starkweather Creek
stormwater runoff
Toxic Chemicals
Truax
Water Pollution
Water quality
Wisconsin DNR
Madison and Dane County wait for military to test burn pits
Photo: former Dane County burn pit at 1750 Pearson Street By Steve Verburg, Wisconsin State Journal Despite the lack of…
What are they hiding? Darwin burn pit reports missing from U.S. Department of Defense, Dane Co, DNR files
In a previous post, I wrote: “On February 14, 1996, Gordon D. Hussey, Chief of the U.S. Army Corps of…
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…
Air National Guard
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,…
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…
Madison, Dane County, & National Guard pass around PFAS hot potato-Wisconsin State Journal
[Above: PFAS-contaminated Pearson burn pit area at Dane County airport. Photo by Maria Powell] Note to readers: Over the years…
Dane Co Lakes & Watershed Commission
Dane County
PFAS Poisoned Yahara Lakes
Public Participation
Racial disparities
Lakes & Watershed Commissioners clueless about public engagement…or just don’t care?
[Above: MEJO Vice President Touyeng Xiong, who grew up in the Truax neighborhood next to Starkweather Creek, speaks to the…
Lakes & Watershed Commission: Who is most burdened by PFAS? Who doesn’t have a voice? How can county policies mitigate unintended consequences?
[Above, MEJO intern Ida Jammeh testifying before the Dane County Lakes & Watershed Commission, July 19, 2018] ***** (See Part…
Private Madison well highly PFAS contaminated; Dane County’s Truax Field is the likely source
In fall 2021, a colleague noticed this letter on the DNR’s BRRTS website, from the DNR to residents of a…
Dane County legally fights DNR PFAS stormwater regulations–with help from national anti-regulatory lobbying group
On June 3, I asked “What is “progressive” Dane County doing about the PFAS oozing from the airport & burn…
City of Madison
Environmental Justice
Fish
Madison Water Utility
PFCs or PFAS
Public Health Madison Dane County
“One Voice” government team tells Madison alders how to engage public on PFAS
“One Voice” government team tells Madison alders how to engage public on PFAS (The MLK Jr. Madison would prefer we…