Miracle! Or magic? Design teams can fix Lake Monona!
~~~ Big news! Three finalists in the Lake Monona Waterfront Design Challenge have figured out how the city can fix Lake Monona’s water quality problems–while also redeveloping the shoreline and…
“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 proponents argued that the center would not only not cause…
“What Else Can Hurt Lake Monona?” Part III: “Unimaginable toxic horrors” remain unmeasured
~~~ hen government shifts from merely presenting the facts on a public project to an orchestrated campaign that avoids any negatives, Joe Taxpayer never knows if he’s getting the truth…
Mad City Ski Team loves the Law Park landfill! Perhaps we should expand it?
***** When it dumped refuse along the Lake Monona shoreline from the 1930s to the 1950s to create Law Park, the City of Madison also made a perfect shoreline–well, almost…
Lo and behold, Law Park landfill is being dug up right before our eyes!
*** Madison’s infamous “hairball” Nolen-Wilson-Willy St intersection was built over an old city landfill, created from the 1930s to the 1950s along the Lake Monona shoreline from Blair Street to…