Mayor responds to Sustainable Madison Committee’s PFAS Recommendations
Eken Park Resistance leaders and community members put jars of local waters in front of the City-County Building at the Water is Life event, April 2021 On May 23, Chris…
Air National Guard
City of Madison
Dane County
Environmental Justice
PFCs or PFAS
Public Participation
Starkweather Creek
Truax
Wisconsin DNR
Yahara Lakes
DNR repeatedly engages public in Marinette & Peshtigo on PFAS–but ignores Madison
Heavily PFAS-contaminated Starkweather Creek water and sediments flood over a backyard garden in the Darbo-Worthington neighborhood in Madison, about a mile south of the Dane County Regional Airport and Truax…
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City of Madison
Environmental Justice
F-35
PFCs or PFAS
Public Participation
Racial Justice
Starkweather Creek
Water Pollution
Sustainable Madison Committee to Mayor and Council on PFAS
Above: Fishing at the mouth of Starkweather Creek as it flows into Lake Monona at Olbrich Park (Photo-Maria Powell) April 27, 2021 To: Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway, Members of the Madison…
Air National Guard
City of Madison
Endocrine disruptors
Environmental Justice
Fish
PFCs or PFAS
Starkweather Creek
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS “forever chemicals” impair our immune systems–National Academy of Sciences
Above: Teens fishing at the mouth of Starkweather Creek in Madison, a popular shoreline fishing spot for people of color, including many who feed their families with the fish they…
Pesticides and PFAS should be tested at Oscar Mayer, Burke & Starkweather Creek
Oscar Mayer in 1947 (Wisconsin State Journal photo) In May 2020, a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) contracted by the City of Madison, while it was preparing to purchase…
Air National Guard
Department of Defense
Environmental Justice
F-35
PFCs or PFAS
Racial disparities
Starkweather Creek
Truax
Wisconsin DNR
Addendum: Will Wisconsin Air National Guard follow DNR laws on PFAS investigations & cleanup?
A couple weeks ago, we posted this article asking whether the Wisconsin Air National Guard (WIANG) will follow DNR laws regarding investigation and cleanup of its highly contaminated base in…
City of Madison
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District
Oscar Mayer
PCBs
PFCs or PFAS
Starkweather Creek
Toxic Chemicals
Wastewater Treatment
Water Pollution
Yahara Lakes
Oscar Mayer contamination must be fully investigated & remediated before redevelopment
For 100 years, Oscar Mayer & Co. and corporations that purchased it have polluted the land and groundwater beneath the site–as well as Starkweather Creek, Yahara River, and Lake Monona.…
Air National Guard
Dane County
Department of Defense
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
F-35
PFCs or PFAS
Racial Justice
Toxic Chemicals
Truax
Environmental group files new lawsuit over F-35 decision
By Catherine Capellaro, Wisconsin Examiner A group seeking to halt the siting of a squadron of F-35 fighter jets at Madison’s Truax Field filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the U.S.…
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City of Madison
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
Fire fighting
Madison Gas & Electric
PFCs or PFAS
Toxic Chemicals
Water Pollution
PFAS from 2019 MGE fire continues to ooze, drain, and slosh into Lake Monona
Firefighters spray PFAS-containing foam on exploded transformer at the Madison Gas & Electric Blount St. station in Madison, summer 2019 (Photo by Wisconsin State Journal) On July 19, 2019 an…
City of Madison
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
Fish
PFCs or PFAS
Racial Justice
Starkweather Creek
Toxic Chemicals
Water Pollution
Starkweather fish rests after hard work soaking up PFAS
Free time after work! (Photo by Maria Powell, Summer 2018) This fish worked very hard cleaning up the PFAS in the west branch of Starkweather Ditch as it flows through…
City of Madison
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
Fish
Fish Advisory
PCBs
Pesticides
PFCs or PFAS
Pharmaceuticals
Plastics
Racial disparities
Racism
stormwater runoff
Toxic Chemicals
Water Pollution
Wisconsin DNR
Yahara Lakes
Monona Bay, Downtown Madison’s Toxic Cesspool
Fish art on Monona Bay created by Eric Anang. Photo by Amber Arnold, Wisconsin State Journal. Graphic additions by a MEJO collaborator. PFAS was found at significant levels in Monona…
Male fertility declining; toxic chemicals blamed
Image from the Book of Man, The Penis Gallery “Male fertility declining; toxic chemicals blamed”–Wisconsin State Journal, 1979 Scientists knew over 40 years ago that toxic chemicals were damaging male…
Toxic substances are everywhere, two UW profs say
Image from mindovermetal.co.uk Toxic substances are everywhere, two UW profs say From United Press International (in the Wisconsin State Journal) Toxic substances endanger the health of virtually every Wisconsin resident,…
City of Madison
Clean Lakes Alliance
Corporate greenwashing
Fish
PFCs or PFAS
Starkweather Creek
Toxic Chemicals
Water Pollution
Clean Lakes Alliance–Madison’s Darling Corporate Greenwashers
While unfunded, exhausted, and beleaguered Madison citizens slog for years begging city, county, and state agencies, and the U.S. military, to do more about the forever PFAS chemicals and a…
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 map here. Please contact info@mejo.us for reports with data depicted…