Madison gets high marks in Wisconsin's first drinking water report cards
DAVID WAHLBERG
Updated
Across the U.S., trillions of gallons of drinking water are lost every year, especially from decrepit systems in communities struggling with significant population loss and industrial decline that leave behind poorer residents, vacant neighborhoods and too-large water systems that are diffic…
The Madison Water Utility got A’s for water quality and communications and B’s for finances and infrastructure in Wisconsin’s first water utility report cards, designed by a UW-Madison researcher.
A $9 million project, expected to be finished by fall, is reducing naturally occurring radium, iron and manganese at the Madison Water Utility's Well 19, at 2526 Lake Mendota Drive.
Work on Well 19 is one of two ongoing construction projects at the Madison Water Utility. The other is installing equipment to remove PFAS chemicals and volatile organic compounds at Well 15, at 3900 E. Washington Ave.
Work at Madison's Well 19, near Frautschi Point by Lake Mendota, is expected to greatly reduce levels of radium, which have nearly exceeded federal standards at the well.
A $9 million project, expected to be finished by fall, is reducing naturally occurring radium, iron and manganese at the Madison Water Utility's Well 19, at 2526 Lake Mendota Drive.
Work at Madison's Well 19, near Frautschi Point by Lake Mendota, is expected to greatly reduce levels of radium, which have nearly exceeded federal standards at the well.
Work on Well 19 is one of two ongoing construction projects at the Madison Water Utility. The other is installing equipment to remove PFAS chemicals and volatile organic compounds at Well 15, at 3900 E. Washington Ave.
