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On Saturday, July 7, the MEJO Starkweather project team, kids in the East Madison Community Center summer programs, and Gambian Youths of Wisconsin went to the mouth of Starkweather Creek…
Photo: Kipp PCB raingarden, June 5, 2018 Are the Kipp raingarden PCB investigations and excavations finally over, six years after PCBs were first found there? Is the adjacent bikepath area…
Last week the Wisconsin DNR released documents pertaining to perfluorinated compounds (PFCs)—also commonly called poly- or per-fluoroalkyl substances or PFAS—at Truax Field’s Wisconsin Air National Guard (WANG) base. One of…
One month ago, on March 10, 2018 Sharon Helmus died from complications after colon cancer surgery. She was 78. My husband and I visited Sharon three times in the hospital—our…
The class action lawsuit against Madison Kipp Corporation, settled in 2013, seems like eons ago. Have Kipp’s pollution problems been resolved? Far from it. PCBs remain in soils under the…
Photo: Past excavations of PCBs along bike path next to Madison-Kipp Corporation The Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) finally settled the civil action against Madison-Kipp Corporation it initiated in September,…
To learn more, see article by Steve Verburg in the Wisconsin State Journal…
In September 2012, the Wisconsin DOJ filed a lawsuit against Madison Kipp Corporation. It is still unresolved. Why? Because it was always intended as a tool to protect Kipp from…
Kipp drain pipe carries toxic PCBs to city rain garden near bike path , STEVEN VERBURG sverburg@madison.com The company expects to find a solution soon, but critics say government regulators…
Photo: Kids walk along bikepath next to Kipp raingarden in February 2017. Sadly, the seemingly never-ending Kipp raingarden saga continues. (See the long history of the Kipp Raingarden PCB Saga…
Photo: Madison-Kipp raingarden in August 2014; behind it, Kipp was building a new curb and fence and paving parking lots, without the required approval and permits. MGE was digging around…
Above: The city has prioritized replacing a paved segment of terrace with grass, over repairing a pothole where children slip on ice (see story below). MEJO introduction to series: City…
This pictogram was used in this post; the splash pad has since been completed Since August we have tried to get the following information from the City of Madison on…
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…
Photo: Toxic permanganate discharge from Kipp groundwater extraction and treatment system (GETS) on Aug. 9, 2015 ***** On December 20 2015 the Wisconsin State Journal published a front page article…