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Starkweather Creek PFAS sediment testing in the news

April 24, 2020 Jim Powell

Photo (Maria Powell): Bridges Golf Course ditch flowing into Starkweather Creek, where the highest levels of PFOS were found Nice coverage by a Madison newspaper of our Starkweather Creek sediment…

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PFAS Task Force RIP

December 21, 2019 Jim Powell

As we’ve experienced for twenty years in Madison, local government prefers to keep the public out of actions it takes–or does not take–regarding locally-occurring toxic pollution problems. The proposed Madison-Dane…

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PFAS levels in creek are more than “concerning”

December 21, 2019 Jim Powell

The PFOS amount in foam found in Starkweather Creek was 92,000 parts per trillion, far exceeding the laughable EPA advisory threshold level of 70 ppt. The mayor should be more…

Madison-Kipp Corp. Public Health Madison Dane County Toxic Chemicals

What is Kipp doing to protect its workers from vapor intrusion? They won’t say.

September 29, 2016 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Photo: Workers in Madison-Kipp factory. … Kipp says they stopped using the highly toxic solvent tetrachloroethylene, also called perchloroethylene or PCE—the toxic chemical that was the main focus of the…

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Wisconsin DNR not following its own rules

June 4, 2016 Jim Powell

This really isn’t a surprise but it’s still very disturbing. WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL JUNE 3, 2016 WATER ENFORCEMENT | DNR DISREGARDING OWN RULES State audit finds DNR ignoring own rules…

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Madison-Kipp Clean Air Act violations: MEJO response to Kipp CEO

June 19, 2015 Jim Powell

Madison-Kipp Corp President/CEO Tony Koblinski responded to our post regarding the EPA consent decree for his company’s Clean Air Act violations. Here is our response: Dear Mr. Koblinski: We offer…

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Where does the raingarden pipe originate? (Kipp Question # 3896? We’ve lost count…)

September 11, 2014 Maria C. Powell, PhD

At long last, one MEJO question (unlike most we have asked, which remain unanswered) has been answered!! Storm water runoff entering the pipe that empties into the raingarden originates at…

Madison-Kipp Corp. Wisconsin DNR

According to DNR’s strange math, Kipp’s PCE plume has reached or passed Well 8, but has not made it to Lake Monona…What?

September 4, 2014 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Recent updates from DNR and PHMDC (see most recent one here) on the ongoing Kipp pollution nightmare are full of careless errors, misleading statements, and critical omissions. Citizens deserve better…

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Kipp Offers Water Utility Some Advice: Run Olbrich Well 24/7!

March 8, 2014 Jim Powell

In a February 26, 2014 email Madison-Kipp Corporation advised the Madison Water Utility to pump the Olbrich Well (Well 8) full-time, after the Water Utility Board asked for assurance from…

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Neighbors Settle for $7.2 Million But Many Kipp Environmental Injustices Still Not Addressed

July 16, 2013 Jim Powell

The immediate neighbors around the Madison-Kipp Corp. factory settled their two class action lawsuits on Monday, July 15. The immediate neighbors and their attorneys will receive a total of $7.2…

Madison-Kipp Corp. Toxins

MEJO Investigates 1

September 25, 2012 Jim Powell

MEJO is reviewing more than a thousand pages of Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources documents on Madison Kipp Corp and the adjacent Goodman Community Center (which is built on a…

Starkweather Creek PFAS sediment testing in the news

PFAS Task Force RIP

PFAS levels in creek are more than “concerning”

What is Kipp doing to protect its workers from vapor intrusion? They won’t say.

Wisconsin DNR not following its own rules

Madison-Kipp Clean Air Act violations: MEJO response to Kipp CEO

Where does the raingarden pipe originate? (Kipp Question # 3896? We’ve lost count…)

According to DNR’s strange math, Kipp’s PCE plume has reached or passed Well 8, but has not made it to Lake Monona…What?

Kipp Offers Water Utility Some Advice: Run Olbrich Well 24/7!

Neighbors Settle for $7.2 Million But Many Kipp Environmental Injustices Still Not Addressed

MEJO Investigates 1

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