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 Air National Guard Base.
Today, DNR will hold public listening session NUMBER 14 regarding the Marinette, Peshtigo PFAS debacle. The agency set up this webpage for easily accessible public information and documents on it a long time ago.
The situation in Marinette and Peshtigo is egregious, and it’s great that DNR is engaging people up there.
But meanwhile…
-NO public engagement about the Truax Field PFAS debacle in Madison-Dane County, which has been going on for years
-NO webpage with accessible public information & updates on this debacle
Why won’t DNR engage–or require the responsible parties (the Department of Defense/Wisconsin Air National Guard, Dane County, and the City of Madison) to engage–people in Madison and Dane County on the huge “forever chemical” PFAS problem flowing through their neighborhoods and into their drinking water, air, creeks, lakes, fish and bodies?
Has DNR deemed the Madison-Dane County PFAS situation less serious than that in Marinette-Peshtigo? Even though PFAS oozing from Truax Field has contaminated all of Starkweather Creek, which travels largely through low income neighborhoods where many people of color live? Even though it has oozed downstream through all of the Yahara Lakes? Even though this PFAS contaminated a major public supply well after people in the neighborhood drank it for years? Even though Starkweather-Lake Monona fish that recreational and low income subsistence anglers of color eat is heavily poisoned with PFAS? Even though creek water and sediments with high PFAS levels flood over vegetable gardens and into basements in the low income neighborhoods along the creek?
What strange politics are going on here? Any ideas? Please send your thoughts: info@mejo.us
Below, Starkweather flowing through Darbo-Worthington neighborhood:
