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…
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Will ANYONE ever clean up the PFAS-soaked burn pits at the Dane County Airport?
Above: Dane County Regional Airport development sign in front of the unremediated Darwin burn pit site. ***** This post may…
Bridges Golf Course built over Madison’s Secret Superfund Site
Above: The “golf ditch” flowing through Bridges Golf Course into Starkweather Creek ******* The last post, Madison’s Secret Superfund Site,…
City of Madison
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Oscar Mayer
Starkweather Creek
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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…
Broken News!! Alarming PFAS hotspot at Truax base not included in Breaking News…
My last post, Breaking News! Starkweather Creek is as stagnant and PFAS-poisoned as ever!, neglected to mention the most alarming…
City of Madison
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PFCs or PFAS
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“One Voice” government team tells Madison alders how to engage public on PFAS
“One Voice” government team tells Madison alders how to engage public on PFAS (The MLK Jr. Madison would prefer we…
Madison’s upside-down environmental justice approach = environmental injustice (The MLK Jr. Madison would prefer we forget, Part II).
[Above: Truax/East Madison Community Center teens with MEJO leaders in early 2020 near Starkweather Creek where we tested PFAS in…
Dear DNR…
[Above, Eric Xiong from the Truax neighborhood fishing in 2018 at the mouth of Madison’s heavily PFAS-contaminated Starkweather Creek with…
“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…
Burke sewage treatment plant
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Porcine Pollution Solutions: A stinky blast from Madison’s sordid past
For those not familiar with pig terminology… From the American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition: PORCINE (pronunciation:…
Lo and behold, the Madison-Kipp poison plume is still there!
[Above: June 2021 plume map of PCE emanating from Madison-Kipp Corp, north-south cross section/isocontour. Where is Madison-Kipp? Above the solid…
EPA PFAS “Strategic Roadmap” is no panacea
[Above: Truax/East Madison Community Center teens at Starkweather Creek where they tested sediments for PFAS, after the Air National Guard,…
Illicit discharges of lies? The ongoing saga of Dane County’s long overdue stormwater ordinance
Above, drainage into Starkweather Creek from the highly PFAS contaminated Dane County-owned Darwin Rd. burn pit. Back in April of…
How much PFAS is in the muck Dane County’s Dragon Dredge will suck? Where will it go?
Dane County’s Dragon Dredge (John Hart Photos, Wisconsin State Journal) “Dragon Dredge’ starts work on next phase” by Emily Hamer…