Nathan Denzin

Madison

Reporter at PBS Wisconsin

Reporter @PBSWI | Formerly @Badger_Project_, @Madison_Mag and @dailycardinal | he/him

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Marty Kanarek on persistent lead contamination in Milwaukee

4 weeks ago | pbswisconsin.org | Nathan Denzin

Marty Kanarek:The Wisconsin Division of Health — the Department of Health Services — has been working on this for years, working with all the counties. Milwaukee is like its own state on lead. They've been working with remediating old houses in Milwaukee forever. The Petit Foundation has given money to help with that. The problem is there's too many old homes.
Sen. Chris Kapenga on the scope of Milwaukee's lead problem

4 weeks ago | pbswisconsin.org | Nathan Denzin

BudgetsState Sen. Chris Kapenga, R-Delafield, discusses assessing the scope and costs of remediating lead contamination in Milwaukee's schools as the governor and Legislature debate the 2025-27 state budget. By | Here & Now Copy and Paste the Following Code to Embed this Video: VIDEO TRANSCRIPT State Sen.
Dave Eggen on opposing plans to remove dams in the Driftless

Dec 3, 2024 | pbswisconsin.org | Nathan Denzin

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT Nathan Denzin:How did you get involved with these dams in the first place? Dave Eggen:Well, I grew up with these dams. I was a young teenager when they were built back in the '60s, and I followed their construction, and I saw how wonderfully they functioned. They've saved this community and this valley from flash flooding, though, for nearly 60 years.
Sydney Widell, Nancy Wedwick on floods, dams and community

Dec 2, 2024 | pbswisconsin.org | Nathan Denzin

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT Sydney Widell:Some of these practices never went away, and they've been on the landscape this whole time. It's just a matter of telling those stories, and bringing them back into circulation, and creating that awareness, and that's something that our organization is really passionate about doing.
Bob Micheel on plans to remove Coon Creek dams after floods

Nov 26, 2024 | pbswisconsin.org | Nathan Denzin

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT Bob Micheel:And this structure breached in the 2018 flood event. So, we had three structures in 2018 breach, and we had three other ones that overtopped and took a lot of damage. If you look behind me, you can see this big wall, and what we found is all the structures that breached, three in the Coon Creek and two in the West Fork. The Coon Creek structures, if you've seen one structure, you've seen 'em all, 'cause they breach the same way.
What to do about aging dams in Wisconsin's Driftless Area?

Nov 20, 2024 | pbswisconsin.org | Nathan Denzin

Transcript Coming Soon. In the summer of 2018, Wisconsin’s Driftless Area was hit by massive and destructive storms. “They were good ones. They were really dandy,” Christiana resident Dean Daniels said. “If you were standing on top of the dam, which is about 39 feet above the valley floor, your boots would have been in water,” said Bob Micheel, who lives in Monroe County. “The cleanup took well over six months,” Christiana resident Charlie Burke said.
Mark Erickson on assessing earthen dam stability and failure

Nov 20, 2024 | pbswisconsin.org | Nathan Denzin

Nathan Denzin:Can you look at a dam and say, "That's about to fail," or, "That's sturdy"? Mark Erickson:It's harder than that, just looking at it. You know, these dams have history. They were, they've been well documented since I would say the mid 1980s, so as you're walking around structures during flood events, you pick up on details that show themselves, whether it's downstream seeps or settling, unusual settling. We've went through and investigated the pipes internally, so we know that data.
Davorin Odrcic on the length of delays in immigration courts

Oct 6, 2024 | pbswisconsin.org | Nathan Denzin

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT Davorin Odrcic:And so, for example, I had a client, we filed for asylum affirmatively, I think in 2015. It took five years for the interview. So the interview, I think, was in 2020. It took another year to have a decision, which was essentially not a grant — it was, we're going to now have you go to immigration court where you renew your application in front of a judge. I think that was in 2021.
How Wisconsin is trying to save its freshwater mussels from drought and rising heat

Sep 8, 2024 | ourcommunitynow.com | Nathan Denzin

Wisconsin is coming back from its worst drought in decades. Along with unusually high temperatures, it’s affected wildlife in and around the state’s rivers. While spring rains ended the drought, recovery in some places has been slow. PBS Wisconsin’s Nathan Denzin reports on one species that’s been hit particularly hard. CONTINUE READING
How Wisconsin is trying to save its freshwater mussels from drought and rising heat

Sep 7, 2024 | pbs.org | Nathan Denzin

Sep 7, 2024 5:30 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Audio Wisconsin is coming back from its worst drought in decades. Along with unusually high temperatures, it’s affected wildlife in and around the state’s rivers. While spring rains ended the drought, recovery in some places has been slow. PBS Wisconsin’s Nathan Denzin reports on one species that’s been hit particularly hard.