“The middle of a massive contamination”: Residents of Wisconsin region struggle with aftereffects of PFAS

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.

Craig Koller grew up splashing through backyard creeks and biking gravel trails, sometimes through the Johnson Control Industries (JCI) 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 … Continue reading “The middle of a massive contamination”: Residents of Wisconsin region struggle with aftereffects of PFAS