“After 50 years of neglect, Starkweather to get its due.”
(Above: Sign about 1992-93 Starkweather Creek remediation near O.B. Sherry Park; photo by Maria Powell in 2018) “After 50 years of neglect, Starkweather to get its due?” Too bad this…
Dane County
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
PFCs or PFAS
Racial disparities
Starkweather Creek
“‘Something has to be done’ about Starkweather Creek, one of Wisconsin’s most polluted waterways”–Wisconsin Watch
Above–MEJO’s Ida Jammeh (left) talking with residents of Darbo-Worthington neighborhood about Starkweather Creek in 2018 (photo by Maria Powell). Learn more about our Starkweather project here. ********* When we started…
John Oliver: “The world is soaked in the Devil’s Piss” (PFAS)
PFAS is not at all funny. But comedian John Oliver’s story of how the world came to be soaked in PFAS–“the Devil’s Piss”–is hilarious. Check it out here:
Environmental destruction
Environmental health
Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District
PFCs or PFAS
Wastewater Treatment
How much PFAS is the Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District spreading on Dane County farmland? Does anyone care?
How much PFAS is in Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) sludge, applied to 5000 acres of Dane County farmland? From MMSD’s (TRC) Sept. 30, 2021 report: MMSD Class A Biosolids:…
Endocrine disruptors
Environmental destruction
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
Toxic Chemicals
Are we sleepwalking?
This morning I came across an excellent–though very disturbing–Mongabay article, part of a series: Novel chemical entities: Are we sleepwalking through a planetary boundary? The answer is unequivocal: YES Mongabay…
The under-reported role of toxic substance exposures in the COVID-19 pandemic
From the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology (full article here or here) By Kostoff RN, Briggs MB, Porter AL, Hernández AF, Abdollahi M, Aschner M, Tsatsakis A. Abstract Coronavirus disease…
Illicit discharges of lies? The ongoing saga of Dane County’s long overdue stormwater ordinance
Above, drainage into Starkweather Creek from the highly PFAS contaminated Dane County-owned Darwin Rd. burn pit. Back in April of this year, I posted a long saga about Dane County’s…
How much PFAS is in the muck Dane County’s Dragon Dredge will suck? Where will it go?
Dane County’s Dragon Dredge (John Hart Photos, Wisconsin State Journal) “Dragon Dredge’ starts work on next phase” by Emily Hamer in today’s Wisconsin State Journal begins: “Dane County on Thursday…
City of Madison
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
Fish Advisory
PFAS Poisoned Yahara Lakes
Racial disparities
UPDATE: Yahara Lakes fish advisories reflect “two Madisons”
Above: Eric Xiong from the Truax apartments fishing at Starkweather Creek where it enters Lake Monona in Olbrich Park (Photo, Maria Powell) This story has been updated from the previous…
Madison 100 years ago: Privileged, pretentious…and polluted
What’s the saying? Some things never change? ************ 1921: In America’s “Model City,” Lake Monona is “a cistern for foul toads to know and gender in” In the midst of…
Clean Lakes Alliance: How can we help our PFAS-poisoned lakes & fish?
How can we help our PFAS-poisoned Yahara lakes and fish? Clean Lakes Alliance and its corporate sponsors–wealthy corporations, chemical producers, gas and electric utilities, developers, law firms, banks–recommend that we…
Fish from all Yahara lakes except Mendota and Wingra on advisory for PFAS
DNR: Fish from Yahara chain of lakes contaminated with PFAS; anglers warned to limit consumption Chris Hubbuch, Wisconsin State Journal Health officials are warning anglers to limit consumption of fish…
Air National Guard
City of Madison
Dane County Regional Airport
Environmental destruction
PFCs or PFAS
Starkweather Creek
Dane County attorney assures supervisors that PFAS at Truax Field is under control
Above, Amy Tutwiler, attorney with Dane County Corporation Counsel Last week Abigail Becker of the Cap Times reported on the June 3 special county board meeting about the PFAS mess…
We all are witness to the rape of the world–Tracy Chapman
“The Rape Of The World” By Tracy Chapman Mother of us all Place of our birth How can we stand aside And watch the rape of the world This the…
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, and military from the 1950s-1980s. Above, the airport’s cell phone…