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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: 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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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
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Cheryl Lamont (right), seen here with Northern Ireland international and Glentoran women star Nadene Caldwell (Image: Archive)
Cheryl Lamont joins Irish FA Board as women’s football representative
The Irish Football Association Board, which is chaired by Stephen Martin, has three new members.
The appointments of Cheryl Lamont, Mervyn Martin and Simon McCoy were confirmed at a meeting of the association’s council on Monday evening.
Cheryl Lamont, who is the Co Antrim FA President and has played, coached and been a football administrator for many years, will be the women’s football representative on the 10-strong board.
At an EGM in December it was decided the board should have a representative for the women’s game in Northern Ireland going forward – and Ms Lamont is the first person to fill that role.
Potential failures in keeping public safe identified by inspectors reporting on Probation Board The Probation Board Northern ireland 10 December, 2020 01:00
CJI chief inspector Jacqui Durkin said `the quality of case supervision was mixed . Picture by Aaron McCracken/PA Wire
POOR risk management planning of offenders and potential failures keeping the public safe have been identified by inspectors reporting on the Probation Board s (PBNI) work.
The Criminal Justice Inspectorate (CJI) and HM Inspectorate of Probation in England and Wales carried out detailed case file review of 84 probation cases and a series of interviews.
In the report released today, they praise PBNI work engaging offenders but warn it is not sufficiently focused on factors related to offending or public protection.