Category: stormwater runoff

Air National Guard City of Madison Dane County PFCs or PFAS Starkweather Creek stormwater runoff Toxic Chemicals Truax

Dane County airport burn pit contamination began in the 1950s

January 15, 2019 Maria C. Powell, PhD

PHOTO: Former Dane County airport fire pit being excavated to build a parking lot in May 2018. The County, City, DNR and DoD were aware of the contamination for at…

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Toxic PFAS is in Starkweather Creek; will anyone test the fish?

October 6, 2018 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Fish caught by children at the mouth of Starkweather Creek in June 2018 (they did not eat the fish). A MEJO post last May linked to an Air National Guard…

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MEJO, East Madison Community Center Kids, and Gambian Youths of Wisconsin Go Fishing!

July 10, 2018 Maria C. Powell, PhD

On Saturday, July 7, the MEJO Starkweather project team, kids in the East Madison Community Center summer programs, and Gambian Youths of Wisconsin went to the mouth of Starkweather Creek…

City of Madison Environmental Justice Madison-Kipp Corp. PCBs stormwater runoff Toxic Chemicals Wisconsin DNR

The Kipp raingarden PCB saga is not over

June 14, 2018 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Photo: Kipp PCB raingarden, June 5, 2018 Are the Kipp raingarden PCB investigations and excavations finally over, six years after PCBs were first found there? Is the adjacent bikepath area…

City of Madison Earth Day stormwater runoff

For Earth Day, MEJO and Gambian Youths of Wisconsin Clear City Storm Drain

April 22, 2018 Maria C. Powell, PhD

On April 21, the Midwest Environmental Justice Organization’s Starkweather team joined the Gambian Youths of Wisconsin and East Madison Community Center youth to clean up trash trapped in a large…

Air National Guard F-35 Fighter jets stormwater runoff Truax

Send Comments on Environmental Justice Impacts of F-35s to Air National Guard by this Friday, April 6!

April 4, 2018 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Martin Luther King Jr. on balcony of Lorraine Motel in Memphis TN just before he was assassinated on April 4, 1968 (AP photo). Today is the 50th anniversary of Martin…

Madison-Kipp Corp. PCBs Public Health Madison Dane County stormwater runoff Toxic Chemicals Vapor intrusion Water Pollution

Madison polluter doesn’t like what he reads

November 11, 2017 Jim Powell

Graphic from the Nov 2, 2017 Isthmus weekly newspaper The Wisconsin State Journal published an October 28, 2017 article, “Best estimate is plume from Madison-Kipp plant could reach drinking water…

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Community dinner kicks off new EPA-funded environmental justice project

October 7, 2017 Jim Powell

MEJO and the East Madison Community Center held a community fish dinner on September 30 to close out the Center’s Hunger Action Month activities and kickoff MEJO’s new USEPA-funded Starkweather…

Environmental Justice Madison-Kipp Corp. Soil contamination stormwater runoff Toxic Chemicals Toxins Water Pollution

City of Madison not requiring Kipp to measure PCBs in raingarden?

October 1, 2016 Jim Powell

This pictogram was used in this post; the splash pad has since been completed Since August we have tried to get the following information from the City of Madison on…

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Wisconsin DNR not following its own rules

June 4, 2016 Jim Powell

This really isn’t a surprise but it’s still very disturbing. WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL JUNE 3, 2016 WATER ENFORCEMENT | DNR DISREGARDING OWN RULES State audit finds DNR ignoring own rules…

Madison-Kipp Corp. stormwater runoff Toxins

Does this sound like a sound blocking fence?

December 12, 2014 Jim Powell

Click here to hear the “sound blocking” fence. The City of Madison wants to pay Madison-Kipp Corp. $79,000 for this “sound blocking” fence as part of a lease agreement. Does…

Goodman Community Center Madison-Kipp Corp. Soil contamination stormwater runoff Toxins Water Pollution

City to Lease Rain Garden to Polluter

November 22, 2014 Jim Powell

(High resolution version of above graphic here) SUMMARY: The City of Madison wishes to extend a lease with Madison-Kipp Corp. through 2023 that will allow Kipp to control the rain…

Madison-Kipp Corp. stormwater runoff Wisconsin DNR

Where does the raingarden pipe originate? (Kipp Question # 3896? We’ve lost count…)

September 11, 2014 Maria C. Powell, PhD

At long last, one MEJO question (unlike most we have asked, which remain unanswered) has been answered!! Storm water runoff entering the pipe that empties into the raingarden originates at…

Madison-Kipp Corp. Public Participation Soil contamination stormwater runoff Toxins Water Pollution

Kipp’s Former Raingarden–Now SludgeGarden–Even More Toxic Than We Knew…

May 2, 2014 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Yesterday we obtained a Figure from the City of Madison with more PCB data from soils excavated from the Kipp raingarden, on City of Madison property just north of Kipp,…

Dioxins Madison-Kipp Corp. Soil contamination stormwater runoff Toxins Water Pollution

Madison Kipp: Making a Beautiful Difference?

April 30, 2014 Maria C. Powell, PhD

See the beautiful difference: Kipp Raingarden to Kipp Sludgegarden. Previous story about the Kipp raingarden here. A raingarden was built by middle school children in 2006 next to Madison-Kipp Corporation.…