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WATER WORRIES

• Chlorine failures irk mayor

• Madison underground is Contamination Central

• Water Utility to abandon Well 3

• Dialogue on water promised

• Well No. 29 tests start today

• Filters tested at Well 29

• City residents become activists for clean water

• Mayor names Meyer to water board

• Madison water board re-elects president

• Meeting to focus on Well No. 3 concerns

• Troubled well likely to remain closed

• Well water wasn't treated

• 3 options listed for troubled Well 3

• Carbon tetrachloride level shuts down water well

• Mayor: Spend more on water

• Houses go up, aquifer goes down

• Well 29 filter system in 2007 budget plan

• Woman diagnosed with high manganese

• Manganese tests called encouraging

• Other contaminates in mains likely not in taps

• Officials say well flushing has cut manganese

• Water utility got warning from DNR

• Water consultant hiring delayed

• Water utility employee complaints unheeded

• Mayor to recommend keeping city water utility manager

• Allied residents need not worry about water warning

• Advisories on city water are muddied

• Day 1: An aging system with less-than-forthcoming officials

• Day 1: Viruses found in water cause concern

• Day 1: Starting point is your local utility

• Day 1: 20,000 water samples tested each year

• Day 1: Dozens of contaminants have been found in water

• Day 2: Report: More money and action needed to prevent future water woes

• Day 2: Some mains in system date to 1880

• Day 3: Water utility response to problems was disappointing, some say

• Day 3: Here's how Madison water is controlled

• Day 4: Pollutants threaten Madison's aquifer

• Day 4: Sales of filters and bottled water rise

• Mayor to lay out water plans

Interactive water quality feature

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Find out what contaminants have been found in Madison-area wells.

IMAGE GALLERIES

Photo gallery: Water Worries

Joseph W. Jackson III -- State Journal

Safe drinking water has become a concern for Madison residents Wendy Ward and Anders Svanoe, with their 14-month-old son Jan-Erik.

(12 images)

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