[CPEO-BIF] Vapor Intrusion at Madison-Kipp, Madison, Wisconsin

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

How neighbors' frustration with Madison-Kipp erupted into major lawsuit

PAT SCHNEIDER
Capital Times (WI)
February 8, 2012

Leslie Bellais can recall a big community meeting on pollution from  
Madison-Kipp Corp. more than a decade ago. She joined more than 100  
of her neighbors - some complaining that they already were sick from  
whatever it was the metal parts fabricator was putting out of its  
smokestacks - who gathered at nearby Olbrich Botanical Gardens to  
voice their opposition to Kipp's application for a state permit to  
emit more pollutants into the air.

Bellais recalls leaving that Dec. 21, 1999, meeting with the feeling  
that the Department of Natural Resources, which controlled the air  
emissions permit, was not convinced that Kipp, located off Atwood  
Avenue on Madison's east side, was making the neighbors sick. For its  
part, "Kipp was sort of arrogant about it all, as if the neighborhood  
was overreacting," says Bellais, who bought her house on South  
Marquette Street in 1992.

No one seems to have mentioned it that night at the public hearing at  
Olbrich Gardens, but as neighbors fretted over what pollutants Kipp  
might be putting into the air, the company and state regulators knew  
that the grounds of the factory were tainted with a toxic chemical  
and that Kipp officials were under an order to clean up their site.


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For the entire article, see
http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/grassroots/how-neighbors- 
frustration-with-madison-kipp-erupted-into-major-lawsuit/ 
article_889bee62-51e7-11e1-853a-001871e3ce6c.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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