DNR discounts hazardous fine particles, so neighbors set up pollution monitors

Members of a Madison neighborhood group plan to put up air pollution monitors to measure fine particle emissions from an aluminum die-casting company.

The neighbors are concerned because the state Department of Natural Resources hasn’t evaluated whether Madison-Kipp Corp.’s emissions of the hazardous particles violate air quality standards.

The Schenk-Atwood-Starkweather-Yahara Neighborhood Association’s environmental committee wants to spend about $2,000 on monitors that would measure airborne particulate matter around the company’s aluminum die-casting operations...