This story was originally published by the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting. Craig Koller grew up splashing through backyard creeks and biking gravel trails, sometimes through the Johnson Control Industries Fire Technology Center. Black smoke wafted overhead as it conducted controlled burns to test firefighting foam, producing a dangerous “forever chemical” known as PFAS. As […] Search for:
The Daily Yonder ‘The Middle of a Massive Contamination’: Residents of Wisconsin Region Struggle With Aftereffects of Dangerous ‘Forever Chemicals’ Four years after a facility disclosed water contamination in the surrounding community, residents and locals deal with the impact of PFAS.
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Jeff Lamont next to a creek just where it empties into Green Bay/Lake Michigan. This creek is the most highly PFAS contaminated of all the tributaries that empty into the lake based on a recent study funded by The Sea Grant Institute (a PhD student at UW Madison). They sampled all significant tributaries from the north end of Door County (eastern shores of Green Bay) to Escanaba, MI (the northernmost tributaries along the west side of Green Bay) on Friday, April 16, 2021. (Photo by Mike Erhart for The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting)
‘The middle of a massive contamination’: Residents of Wisconsin region struggle with aftereffects of dangerous ‘forever chemicals’
Four years after a facility disclosed water contamination in the surrounding community, residents and locals deal with the impact of PFAS.
May 4, 2021 8:51 AM Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism
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Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting
Craig Koller grew up splashing through backyard creeks and biking gravel trails, sometimes through the Johnson Control Industries Fire Technology Center. Black smoke wafted overhead as it conducted controlled burns to test firefighting foam, producing a dangerous “forever chemical” known as PFAS.
As a kid growing up in the northern Wisconsin port city of Marinette, Koller didn’t think much of being around the facility or drinking the city’s water.
By Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism
May 4, 2021 | 8:51 AM
By John McCrackenÂ
Midwest Center for Investigative ReportingÂ
Craig Koller grew up splashing through backyard creeks and biking gravel trails, sometimes through the Johnson Control Industries Fire Technology Center. Black smoke wafted overhead as it conducted controlled burns to test firefighting foam, producing a dangerous âforever chemicalâ known as PFAS.Â
As a kid growing up in the northern Wisconsin port city of Marinette, Koller didnât think much of being around the facility or drinking the cityâs water. Â
âHow would you have known? Thereâs no signs (at that time) saying, âStay out: contamination,â â Koller, 32, said.Â