Air National Guard
Burn pits
Dane County
Dane County Regional Airport
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
F-35
PFCs or PFAS
Starkweather Creek
Toxic Chemicals
Toxins
Air National Guard
Department of Defense
Environmental Justice
EPA
F-35
Fighter jets
PCBs
Pentagon
PFCs or PFAS
Public Participation
Racism
Risk Assessment
Starkweather Creek
Starkweather EJ Project
stormwater runoff
Toxic Chemicals
Truax
Water Pollution
Truax ANG to weaponize base ahead of F-35 deployment
Public engagement tokenized, environmental justice ignored According to an April 2019 Draft Environmental Assessment (EA), Truax Air National Guard is planning major demolition, construction, and renovation projects from 2020-2027 at…
City of Madison
Dane County
Department of Defense
Environmental Justice
EPA
Fish
Fish Advisory
Madison Water Utility
PFCs or PFAS
Public Health Madison Dane County
Starkweather Creek
stormwater runoff
Toxic Chemicals
Toxins
Truax
Water Pollution
Water quality
Wetlands
Wisconsin DNR
MEJO Report: Starkweather Creek & Toxic Stormwater Runoff in Madison, Wis.
On Earth Day, April 22, the Midwest Environmental Justice Organization released a report on its USEPA-funded Starkweather Creek Environmental Justice project. STARKWEATHER CREEK & TOXIC STORMWATER RUNOFF REPORT Pollution, governance…
City of Madison
Madison Water Utility
PFCs or PFAS
Public Participation
Risk Assessment
Toxic Chemicals
Madison Water Utility withheld PFAS data because the public “wouldn’t understand”
At an April 15 Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) meeting, the Madison Water Utility admitted that it kept PFAS test data from the public, and the committee agreed with the approach,…
Air National Guard
City of Madison
Community engagement
EPA
Madison Water Utility
PFCs or PFAS
Public Health Madison Dane County
Public Participation
Risk Assessment
Toxic Chemicals
Truax
Water Pollution
Wisconsin DNR
Madison officials lead PR public meeting about PFAS in drinking water: Nothing to worry about!
On Saturday, March 16, at the East Madison Community Center, Madison Water Utility (WU) and Public Health Madison Dane County (PHMDC) staff gave presentations about the per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances…
Air National Guard
Cancer
City of Madison
EPA
Madison Water Utility
PFCs or PFAS
Risk Assessment
Starkweather Creek
Toxic Chemicals
Truax
Water quality
Madison shutting down PFAS-contaminated well while insisting water is safe
By Steve Verburg, Wisconsin State Journal Madison is shutting down a North Side drinking water well that has been contaminated with toxic chemicals from a nearby military base. In announcing…
City of Madison
Dane County
Fish
Madison Water Utility
PFCs or PFAS
Risk Assessment
Starkweather Creek
stormwater runoff
Toxic Chemicals
Truax
Water Pollution
Water quality
Wisconsin DNR
Madison and Dane County wait for military to test burn pits
Photo: former Dane County burn pit at 1750 Pearson Street By Steve Verburg, Wisconsin State Journal Despite the lack of funding for a military cleanup, Madison and Dane County have…
Air National Guard
EPA
F-35
Fighter jets
Fish
Madison Water Utility
PFCs or PFAS
Starkweather Creek
stormwater runoff
Toxic Chemicals
Wisconsin DNR
Discarded deadlines let polluted plume from military base spread unchecked
By Steve Verburg, Wisconsin State Journal Last spring, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources warned Truax Air National Guard base in Madison it could face enforcement action if it didn’t…
City of Madison
Environmental Justice
Madison Water Utility
PFCs or PFAS
Risk Assessment
Toxic Chemicals
Truax
Water quality
Madison water utility board wants stronger PFAS protections considered
By Steve Verburg, Wisconsin State Journal The Madison Water Utility Board is seeking stronger protections for Madison’s drinking water supply from hazardous chemicals that have spread through groundwater from the…
Air National Guard
City of Madison
Community engagement
Environmental Justice
EPA
Madison Water Utility
NRDC
PFCs or PFAS
Public Health Madison Dane County
Public Participation
Racism
Starkweather Creek
Toxic Chemicals
Truax
Water Pollution
Water quality
Wisconsin DNR
Madison water utility hears demands on PFAS-tainted well
Photo: Madison Well 15 at Reindahl Park By Steve Verburg, Wisconsin State Journal As citizen groups prepared to ask the Madison Water Utility Board on Tuesday for a more aggressive…
Wisconsin case shows how sewage plants spread unregulated toxins across landscape
By Steve Verburg, Wisconsin State Journal Detection of a toxic chemical in a northeastern Wisconsin wastewater treatment plant’s sludge has prompted a halt to application of the material on nearby…
Air National Guard
City of Madison
Community engagement
Environmental Justice
F-35
Fighter jets
Madison Water Utility
PFCs or PFAS
Public Participation
Racism
Starkweather Creek
stormwater runoff
Toxic Chemicals
Truax
Water Pollution
Are we spiritually dead? What would Martin Luther King Jr. say?
“Giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism” dominate even in liberal Madison “I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we…
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
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…
Cancer
City of Madison
Environmental Justice
Fish
Madison Water Utility
PFCs or PFAS
Risk Assessment
Toxic Chemicals
Truax
Water quality
Drinking water contamination linked to chemicals seeping from air base rose slightly
Photo: Madison Well 15 By Steve Verburg, Wisconsin State Journal Testing results released Monday show a slight increase in hazardous fluorinated compounds in Madison drinking water. A Madison Water Utility…
Air National Guard
City of Madison
PFCs or PFAS
Public Health Madison Dane County
Risk Assessment
Starkweather Creek
Toxic Chemicals
Truax
Wisconsin DNR
Public Health PFAS doublespeak: Exposures expected, but no risks! Huh?
Photo: Child catches panfish at the mouth of Starkweather Creek where it flows into Lake Monona, July 2018 Our October 2018 article raised questions about exposures to toxic PFAS (per-…
Three years later, Wisconsin hasn’t stopped toxic chemical flow
The following appeared in the December 9, 2018 print edition of the Wisconsin State Journal By Steven Verburg, Wisconsin State Journal Toxic chemicals linked to an array of life-threatening illnesses…