Category: Fish

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s forgotten “giant triplets” alive & well in Madison, Wisconsin

January 18, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

From Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1967 speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence”: “I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the…

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Utility to build over toxic sludge at former sewage plant on Madison’s Northside

November 13, 2020 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Above: Burke sewage plant “trickling filters” built around 1916. Photo from Wisconsin Historical Society ******* One of Madison’s long-standing corporate powerhouses, Madison Gas & Electric (MGE), plans to build a…

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Northside teens push for creek clean-up after new sediment tests find high levels of PFAS — again

May 28, 2020 Maria C. Powell, PhD

By Oona Mackesey-Green, Northside News (photo by Garth Olmanson) When the test results came back in February showing high levels of PFAS in the sediment at Starkweather Creek, a foot…

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Capital City Hues on MEJO & EMCC Starkweather PFAS testing (Part 2)

May 21, 2020 Maria C. Powell, PhD

East Madison Community Center (EMCC) Starkweather project team members Mack Rimson, Kenyan Harper, and Elijah Smith (left to right) at a Starkweather Creek tributary, November 2019 (Photo: Maria Powell) **********…

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Capital City Hues on MEJO & EMCC Starkweather PFAS testing (Part I)

May 6, 2020 Maria C. Powell, PhD

MEJO and EMCC team meets to discuss Starkweather results in late February (Photo by Jim Powell) *********** Jonathan Gramling of Capital City Hues met with MEJO leaders and East Madison…

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Starkweather Creek PFAS sediment testing in the news

April 24, 2020 Jim Powell

Photo (Maria Powell): Bridges Golf Course ditch flowing into Starkweather Creek, where the highest levels of PFOS were found Nice coverage by a Madison newspaper of our Starkweather Creek sediment…

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MEJO and East Madison Community Center teens find significantly elevated PFAS levels in Starkweather Creek sediments

April 21, 2020 Jim Powell

Earth Day 2020: Fifty years after first Earth Day, toxic environmental pollution still pervasive (Madison, Wis.)–New PFAS results, released before the COVID 19 lockdown, show significantly elevated levels of PFOS…

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Superfund will not protect our waterways — or us — from the military’s toxic pollution

March 11, 2020 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Maria Powell, Cap Times op-ed Photo above: Starkweather Creek going through Truax Field The final environmental impact statement (EIS) on basing F-35 fighter jets at Madison’s Truax Field states that…

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MEJO Executive Director on PFAS and F-35s at Madison Truax Field

March 4, 2020 Maria C. Powell, PhD

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Don’t kill the messenger: City water utility spokesperson falsely accuses media of bias

January 30, 2020 Maria C. Powell, PhD

PFAS hits in Madison drinking water wells By Steven Verburg, for the Isthmus In a Jan. 16 guest column in Isthmus, a Madison city water utility spokesperson took a page…

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High levels of PFAS found in Starkweather Creek, Lake Monona fish (gee, what a surprise!)

January 17, 2020 Maria C. Powell, PhD

In October, 2018–after months of asking the city, county, and DNR to test fish in Starkweather Creek–we posted this article asking why nobody would test the fish. We had known…

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PFAS Task Force RIP

December 21, 2019 Jim Powell

As we’ve experienced for twenty years in Madison, local government prefers to keep the public out of actions it takes–or does not take–regarding locally-occurring toxic pollution problems. The proposed Madison-Dane…

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PFAS levels in creek are more than “concerning”

December 21, 2019 Jim Powell

The PFOS amount in foam found in Starkweather Creek was 92,000 parts per trillion, far exceeding the laughable EPA advisory threshold level of 70 ppt. The mayor should be more…

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Northside News: Northside advocates address PFAS well and waterways dangers

November 29, 2019 Jim Powell

The December/January issue of the Northside News has a front page article on MEJO’s work… Northside advocates address PFAS well and waterways dangers By Cora Wiese Moore Northside News Growing…

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Toxic PFAS in Starkweather Creek, Madison Wisconsin; What is the public health agency doing to protect people from exposures? To engage the community?

November 13, 2019 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Photo: Foam at the Starkweather Creek/Olbrich Park boat launch on October 24 (Wisconsin State Journal) Recent news about alarming levels of the highly toxic “forever chemicals” known as “PFAS” (per…