History
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What’s under Monroe Street?
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Major project uncovers century-old water main. --- ---Category: History
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Finding Madison's foxes
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UW researchers take a close look at buried Madison reservoir ---Category: History
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Bidding farewell to Madison’s “legacy” main
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The city’s oldest infrastructure is being replaced, one project at a time. --- (Photo: First Madison Water Works Superintendent John Heim, left, oversees water main installation, cir. 1900)Category: History
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Madison Water Utility turns 135!
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-- How a UW undergrad & a local bookbinder paved the way for safe water in Madison --Category: History
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World War II-era journals discovered at construction site
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--- They’re not exactly what Madison Water Utility supervisor John Kaioula expected to find when he started clearing out his office in preparation for reconstruction of the utility’s Paterson St. Operations Center.Category: HistoryTags: Madison Water Utility, History, World War II
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EPA seeks details of Madison’s Lead Service Replacement Program
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Madison's once-controversial program may now become a model for other cities --- “Those books are the lead service contracts,” says Madison Water Utility operations clerk Amy Jones, gesturing over her shoulder to three massive binders stacked neatly on top ofCategory: History, Our People
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Rediscovering the reservoir
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Westward expansion It was the mid-1920s – when Regent Street led to the very edge of Madison, when farm fields stretched across places that would later become Hill Farms, Sunset Village, Westmorland, and Midvale Heights. A population boom was coming, and itCategory: History
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Unearthing Madison's history
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Fighting for safe water It's hard to imagine that in a city surrounded by lakes, access to safe water was a concern from the beginning. But as Madison's population boomed in the 1860s and 70s, diseases like typhoid and cholera were becoming prevalent. It would take a UWCategory: History
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