What’s draining from these pipes into Starkweather Creek? PFAS & other poisons

Above: Giant drain pipes in Bridges Golf Course, which receive PFAS-contaminated stormwater from the former Truax landfill and Burke sewage…

Above, drainage into Starkweather Creek from the highly PFAS contaminated Dane County-owned Darwin Rd. burn pit. Back in April of…

What’s the saying? Some things never change? ************ 1921: In America’s “Model City,” Lake Monona is “a cistern for foul…

The highly contaminated Darwin Road burn pit area at the Dane County Regional Airport was used by the city, county,…

Part 1 of this article told the story of Oscar Mayer & Co. sloshing sludge into Starkweather Creek, the Yahara…

In 1970, just before Madison’s first Earth Day, Oscar Mayer installed a mile-long system that misted artificial chemical perfumes around…

By Maria C. Powell, PhD Note: All citations have been removed for ease of reading. If you are interested in…

For 100 years, Oscar Mayer & Co. and corporations that purchased it have polluted the land and groundwater beneath the…

 I am still working on the People’s Environmental History of Madison, but rarely post excerpts here.  If you are interested…

MEJO ON CITY’S OSCAR MAYER SPECIAL AREA & BUS BARN PLANS Comments to City of Madison about the Oscar Mayer…

On March 10, Dane County Executive Joe Parisi and his staff will present at a Clean Lakes Alliance “101 Science…

OSCAR MAYER, PART II OSCAR MAYER’S INSECTICIDE EXPERIMENTS AND MANUFACTURING  OSCAR MAYER INVESTIGATIVE & REMEDIAL REPORTS MEJO’s COMMENTS ON CITY’S…

Above: Burke sewage plant “trickling filters” built around 1916. Photo from Wisconsin Historical Society ******* One of Madison’s long-standing corporate…

Maria Powell, Cap Times op-ed Photo above: Starkweather Creek going through Truax Field The final environmental impact statement (EIS) on…

Photo: Starkweather Creek in the Darbo-Worthington neighborhood (Maria Powell). By Steve Elbow, Cap Times Lance Green has been collecting water…