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“What Else Can Hurt Lake Monona?” Part III: “Unimaginable toxic horrors” remain unmeasured
~~~ hen government shifts from merely presenting the facts on a public project to an orchestrated campaign that avoids any negatives, Joe Taxpayer never knows if he’s getting the truth…
Mad City Ski Team loves the Law Park landfill! Perhaps we should expand it?
***** When it dumped refuse along the Lake Monona shoreline from the 1930s to the 1950s to create Law Park, the City of Madison also made a perfect shoreline–well, almost…
Lessons from the past: Beware the Chamber of Commerce Juggernaut!
In the 1990s, a powerful Chamber of Commerce Juggernaut finally made Frank Lloyd Wright’s Monona Terrace happen after decades of failed attempts. Who was part of this Juggernaut? Greater Madison…
What are they hiding? Darwin burn pit reports missing from U.S. Department of Defense, Dane Co, DNR files
In a previous post, I wrote: “On February 14, 1996, Gordon D. Hussey, Chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Branch Engineering Division wrote to Michael Schmoller at…
Indigenous Peoples’ Day in Madison Wisconsin
***** In recent years, City of Madison leaders have made much ballyhoo about recognizing that the city stands on the Ho-Chunk Nation’s
Dane County Airport’s “EcoMentality” = Doublespeak + Magical Thinking
***** A small consulting firm out of Verona, Orin Technologies , claims that it has done what no other scientists or engineers anywhere else in
DNR powerless as burn pit RPs are “snarled in negotiations” for 33 (and counting) years?
***** On July 25, 1989, Laurie Egre at the Wisconsin DNR wrote to her colleague Joe Brusca about the “Truax Air National Guard Fire Training Site.” She referred to the…
Monona Terrace, model stormwater pollution control facility?
*** Previous posts described how, from the 1930s to the 1950s, the City of Madison filled the Lake Monona shoreline with refuse to make Law Park, and how the Frank…
WHO: An estimated two million lives were lost due to chemical exposures in 2019
Our regulatory system is a failure. If two million lives were lost due to chemical exposures in 2019, about the same number of people (or more) likely die from chemical…
“What Else Can Hurt Lake Monona?” Part II: Let’s build Monona Terrace on top of a carcinogen-leaching landfill in the lake!
This piece will be edited in coming days. If you see mistakes or problems, or have something to add, please let me know: mariapowell@mejo.us “EIS committee members received a report…
Lo and behold, Law Park landfill is being dug up right before our eyes!
*** Madison’s infamous “hairball” Nolen-Wilson-Willy St intersection was built over an old city landfill, created from the 1930s to the 1950s along the Lake Monona shoreline from Blair Street to…
Gee what a surprise! Clean Lakes Alliance presenters neglect to mention Law Park landfill
******* Curiously, the presentation by Allen Arntsen and Mike Sturm at the September 15 “Clean Lakes Alliance 101 Science Cafe,” on “re-imagining Lake Monona’s shoreline,” omitted a critical piece of…
Are contractors pumping PFAS & toxic Law Park landfill leachates into Lake Monona?
******** Some of this is an excerpt from the end of a previous post (since few will read down that far). WisDOT Nolen-E. Wilson-Willy St reconstruction testing at Law Park…