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Safe drinking water has become a concern for Madison residents Wendy Ward and Anders Svanoe, with their 14-month-old son Jan-Erik. Madison's drinking water is sampled and tested for bacteria and chlorine at least twice each week. Here water quality specialist Ken Tarver, left, watches as trainee Joe Grande takes a sample inside a water tower near Prairie Road. A gas station is at the corner of Franklin and University avenues, just across the street from a Madison municipal well. Lisa Lehnertz, who lives on Madisons Isthmus, is concerned enough about the quality of her water that she drinks bottled water and also keeps a filtered pitcher of water in her refrigerator.
Water samples for testing, such as these, are taken from more than 30 sampling sites on the East and West sides of the city in locations such as schools and fire stations. With manganese becoming a problem for Madison residents, Madison Water Utility employees such as Mike Aulik are spending long hours this spring flushing the citys water mains. Here, Aulik takes a water sample from a hydrant at Ashford Lane and Todd Drive. The system that delivers water to Madisons homes is a complicated series of wells, pipes and reservoirs and is monitored from a control room at the Madison Water Utility office. Here, Al Larson, the utilitys principal engineer, checks on the operation of city wells. In addition to samples from schools and other public buildings, water utility employees including Joe Grande take regular samples from city wells such as this one on Prairie Road in Madison.
As Madison's population increases, the Madison Water Utility is faced with greater challenges in providing a plentiful, safe supply of water, utility officials and others say. A water tower and reservoir, seen here from Bradbury Road, loom above homes near the Madison and Fitchburg border. Stephanie Stender, who lives in Madison's Nakoma neighborhood, no longer drinks the water from her tap because of concerns about manganese. Instead, she buys bottled water. Water samples for testing are taken regularly at the Madison's wells and water towers. Here, Joe Grande, left, and Ken Tarver, with the Madison Water Utility, enter a tower to get samples. David Hart, a hydrogeologist with the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, demonstrates how a piece of the Mount Simon sandstone aquifer soaks up and stores water.
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