DNR powerless as burn pit RPs are “snarled in negotiations” for 33 (and counting) years?
[Above, Dane County Regional Airport constructing a cell phone lot in 2018 where the heavily contaminated Darwin burn pit was…
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Dane Co Lakes & Watershed Commission
Dane County
PFAS Poisoned Yahara Lakes
Public Participation
Racial disparities
Lakes & Watershed Commissioners clueless about public engagement…or just don’t care?
[Above: MEJO Vice President Touyeng Xiong, who grew up in the Truax neighborhood next to Starkweather Creek, speaks to the…
Lakes & Watershed Commission: Who is most burdened by PFAS? Who doesn’t have a voice? How can county policies mitigate unintended consequences?
[Above, MEJO intern Ida Jammeh testifying before the Dane County Lakes & Watershed Commission, July 19, 2018] ***** (See Part…
Madison fouled its own nest, Part IV: “Madison Underground, Contamination Central”
[Above: Madison north/eastside landfill map, compiled by TRC for the Eastside Water Supply Project in 2012 when the Water Utility…
Madison fouled its own nest, Part II: “A Loss of Public Trust” in the Madison Water Utility
[Above: A plan by John Nolen from 1910 shows a vision for Madison as a model city. The plan shows…
City of Madison
Dane County
Department of Defens
Oscar Mayer
Starkweather Creek
Superfund
Truax landfill
Madison’s Secret Superfund Site
[Above: Truax Landfill, summer 2021, looking south from Bridges golf course–abandoned nuclear rocket bunkers in the center, a landfill monitoring…
Madison fouled its own nest (Part 1)
[Photo from Wisconsin State Journal “The Yahara Lakes | Giants Among Us” series by Steve Verburg] This article is part…
“It Ain’t Wright”! Madison’s toxic past buried under Monona Terrace (and now eaten by subsistence anglers)
[Above: Anglers at Monona Terrace, photo by Maria Powell, July 2022] ***** My dad grew up in downtown Madison during…
The Cold War in Madison: Nuclear missiles assembled and stored at Truax Field
[Above: Former nuclear rocket bunkers at Bridges Golf Course, Sept. 27, 2021] ******************** This article is also posted on Historic…
City of Madison
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
Fish Advisory
PFAS Poisoned Yahara Lakes
Racial disparities
UPDATE: Yahara Lakes fish advisories reflect “two Madisons”
Above: Eric Xiong from the Truax apartments fishing at Starkweather Creek where it enters Lake Monona in Olbrich Park (Photo,…
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?
The highly contaminated Darwin Road burn pit area at the Dane County Regional Airport was used by the city, county,…
Oscar Mayer Sludge History, Part II
Part 1 of this article told the story of Oscar Mayer & Co. sloshing sludge into Starkweather Creek, the Yahara…
Air National Guard
Cancer
City of Madison
Ecology
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
Fish
Fish Advisory
Military
PFCs or PFAS
Racial disparities
Racial Justice
Racism
Starkweather Creek
Toxic Chemicals
Truax
Water Pollution
Oops! We poisoned the “Giants Among Us”–the Yahara lakes
MEJO’s Jim Powell and Touyeng Xiong teach kids how to put bait on fish hooks at the Olbrich Park fishing…
Oscar Mayer
OSCAR MAYER, PART II OSCAR MAYER’S INSECTICIDE EXPERIMENTS AND MANUFACTURING OSCAR MAYER INVESTIGATIVE & REMEDIAL REPORTS MEJO’s COMMENTS ON CITY’S…
City of Madison
Environmental Justice
Madison-Kipp Corp.
PCBs
stormwater runoff
Toxic Chemicals
Wisconsin DNR
The Kipp raingarden PCB saga is not over
Photo: Kipp PCB raingarden, June 5, 2018 Are the Kipp raingarden PCB investigations and excavations finally over, six years after…