Municipal Wells
Downtown Madison built on coal ash
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Before coal ash was more regulated, companies dumped tons of it in low areas of the Isthmus and elsewhere. Whether it has contaminated Madison’s water is unclear.
Water Watch Wisconsin
‘Beneficial reuse’ of coal ash could contaminate drinking water statewide
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It’s not a good sign when even the dogs won’t drink your tap water. “They sniff it and then drink the bottled water we pour,” said Frank Michna of Caledonia, one of hundreds of southeastern Wisconsin residents whose wells are contaminated by pollutants that may be coming from buried coal ash.
Coal Ash
Environmental group links ‘beneficial reuse’ of coal ash to southeastern Wisconsin well contamination
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The environmental advocacy group Clean Wisconsin alleges that coal ash “beneficial reuse” sites have contaminated hundreds of wells in southeastern Wisconsin with molybdenum, while the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources questions the group’s methodology.