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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. Share this: 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 si...

Wisconsin residents combat water contamination aftereffects JOHN McCRACKEN of Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting May 6, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail MARINETTE, Wis. (AP) — 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 f...

Struggling with after effects of dangerous "forever chemicals." //end headline wrapper ?> Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban Milwaukee Jeff Lamont, a Marinette, Wis., resident and retired hydrologist, is seen next to a creek where it empties into Lake Michigan’s Green Bay. 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. Sampling occurred at all significant tributaries from the eastern shores of Green Bay at the north end of Door County, Wis., to Escanaba, Mich. Credit: Mi...

‘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 Posted: 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 ove...

By Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism May 4, 2021 | 8:51 AM By John McCracken  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 drinkin...