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Above: Giant drain pipes in Bridges Golf Course, which receive PFAS-contaminated stormwater from the former Truax landfill and Burke sewage plant–and former Oscar Mayer factory area–before discharging via the “golf…

Air National Guard Fighter jets PFCs or PFAS Starkweather Creek Wisconsin DNR

What is being done about Starkweather Creek? The military is spewing (or burying) PFAS contamination, proposing experimental “pilot” studies

October 29, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

“Something has to be done immediately” about Starkweather Creek, Melody Homesley, a 16-year resident of the Darbo Worthington neighborhood, told Isaac Wasserman when he interviewed her for his Wisconsin Watch…

Environmental Justice EPA PFCs or PFAS Racial disparities Starkweather Creek

EPA PFAS “Strategic Roadmap” is no panacea

October 20, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Sharon Lerner’s recent Intercept article– People Exposed to PFAS Criticize EPA Action

Environmental health Environmental Justice Starkweather Creek

“After 50 years of neglect, Starkweather to get its due.”

October 7, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

(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

October 7, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

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…

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

June 7, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

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…

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?

May 26, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

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…

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

May 19, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

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…

City of Madison Environmental destruction Madison Oscar Mayer PCBs Pesticides Starkweather Creek Toxic Chemicals Toxins Wastewater Treatment Water Pollution Water quality Wetlands Wisconsin DNR

Oscar Mayer Sludge History, Part II

May 15, 2021 Jim Powell

The latest installment of Maria’s Powell’s saga of a corporation and the city that loved it…to its own detriment. OSCAR MAYER SLUDGE HISTORY, PART II <– NEW OSCAR MAYER’S INSECTICIDE…

City of Madison Dane County Public Health Madison Dane County Starkweather Creek stormwater runoff Water Pollution Water quality Wisconsin DNR Yahara Lakes

UPDATE 2: Has Dane County actually been violating its DNR stormwater permit for 26 years?

April 29, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

UPDATE 2: Following up (again) on my original post, looking at my old stormwater regulation notes today, I saw that the City of Madison and Dane County received their first…

Air National Guard 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

April 29, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

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…

City of Madison Dane County Public Health Madison Dane County Starkweather Creek stormwater runoff Water Pollution Water quality Wisconsin DNR Yahara Lakes

UPDATE: Dane County has been violating its DNR stormwater permit for 17 years

April 27, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Above: Storm drains at Dane County Regional Airport, flowing through contaminated soils into Starkweather Creek. Are these city or county storm drains? Who is responsible to make sure toxic chemicals…

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

April 16, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

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…

City of Madison Dane County Public Health Madison Dane County Starkweather Creek stormwater runoff Water Pollution Water quality Wisconsin DNR Yahara Lakes

Dane County has been violating its DNR stormwater permit for 17 years

April 13, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

City of Madison Environmental health Oscar Mayer Pesticides PFCs or PFAS Starkweather Creek

Pesticides and PFAS should be tested at Oscar Mayer, Burke & Starkweather Creek

April 3, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

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…