Madison’s Drinking Water

Madison Fouled Its Own Nest

A history of Madison’s water system and how its interconnected lakes and deep aquifers came to be so polluted:

This 2022 series by MEJO co-founder Maria Powell explores Madison’s long history of water contamination, showing how it took the city less than 200 years to turn its pristine lakes and aquifers – once praised for their incredible purity – into an intractably polluted mess. Although the series focuses largely on the city’s municipal water system and its well water contamination issues, it emphasizes

Part 1: Madison Fouled its Own Nest: How Madison’s drinking water system came to be, 1882-1990

Part 2: A “Loss of Public Trust” in the Madison Water Utility: Well contamination increasingly comes to light, 1990-2006

Part 3: “The Wicked Witch is Dead”: Shutting down Well 3 and other responses to well contamination, 2006-2007

Part 4: “Madison Underground, Contamination Central”: Madison’s numerous landfills are contaminating its drinking water

Madison’s Drinking Water

Madison Fouled Its Own Nest

A history of Madison’s water system and how its interconnected lakes and deep aquifers came to be so polluted:

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People’s Environmental History of Madison

Madison’s Drinking Water

Madison Fouled Its Own Nest

A history of Madison’s water system and how its interconnected lakes and deep aquifers came to be so polluted:

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People’s Environmental History of Madison