Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene (WSLH) Inorganic Chemistry and Trace Elements Clean Laboratory Director Dr. Patrick Gorski is leading a multi-agency team looking at the factors that determine the natural concentration of hexavalent chromium – aka Chromium VI – in Wisconsin groundwater.
The research project – using funding administered through the University of Wisconsin Water Resources Institute – was spurred when Chromium VI was found in drinking water wells in Madison, WI. The levels were low so it probably wasn’t due to industrial contamination, which started Gorski thinking about how and why it got there.
Researchers are in the second year of the two-year project and are investigating how geology and environment may play a role.
Read more about the project.