Editorial Roundup: Wisconsin
Racine Journal Times. June 28, 2021.
Editorial: Use tax windfall for water testing
In early 2020, in this space, we posed a question regarding perfluorinated chemicals or PFAS, known as “forever chemicals” because they don’t break down in the environment: How much of those chemicals would you like in your glass of water?
We’re confident your answer was “none at all” then, and remains the same.
People in the Town of Campbell would love to give the same answer. But many of them have no choice.
In Campbell, with a population of fewer than 5,000 on French Island across the Mississippi River from La Crosse, there was no money to conduct water testing in 2020, when contamination from the nearby La Crosse Regional Airport was disclosed, and homeowners naturally wanted to know if PFAS had reached their wells.
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Campbell to contract with Davy Engineering to study solutions to PFAS contamination
May 13, 2021 5:38 PM Mike Tighe
Updated:
TOWN OF CAMPBELL, Wis. (WKBT) The town of Campbell will contract with Davy Engineering in La Crosse to conduct a feasibility study for long-term solutions to PFAS contamination of residents’ wells.
The Town Council decided unanimously to engage the La Crosse consulting firm during a special Zoom meeting convened Thursday to discuss the issue.
Town Chairman Josh Johnson said he discussed the study possibility with Davy Chairman and President Mike Davy, who told him the company had prepared reports on the PFAS issue in the area between 1998 and 2002.