MADISON COUNTY WATER WATCH
Help Save Water in Madison County, Indiana. Protect our water sources, and our water ways. For now, and for the generations after us.
Madison County Water Watch & Toxic Taps (Indiana) —
a community-led group dedicated to raising awareness, sharing information, and demanding accountability around water contamination issues affecting Madison County, IN and surrounding areas
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The City of Anderson recently filed with the IURC to set its own municipal water service territory (Cause #46147) . At the same time, it’s pursuing a large-scale water‐rate increase & debt issuance case (Cause #46171), requesting a phased plan that could boost household bills from ~$24.95 now to as high as $47.58 by 2029
Latest Project
What's in your Water?!? That is the question we have been trying to answer since October 22, 2024, the first time we heard the water in Anderson; Indiana was testing high in levels of PFAS/PFOS. It didn't stop there. Around the beginning of 2025 we learned about the local National Priority List Superfund Site.
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How Madison County
Water Watch & Toxic Taps Got Started:
It all began at a City Council Meeting on October 22, 2024. That night, we learned more about the water in Anderson, Indiana than we ever expected—and what we heard had our heads spinning. The one thing that stood out most was hearing about Forever Chemicals—specifically PFAS and PFOS.
When the Director of Anderson's Water Department admitted that our water had been testing high in PFOS since 2022, that was the turning point. In that moment, it became clear: the water problems in our community weren't just due to old, rusty pipes. This was something much bigger.
Driven by concern and curiosity, many of us began digging through local history to uncover the truth. The deeper we looked, the more alarming the story became—layers upon layers of contamination, neglect, and hidden dangers going back decades.
The moment that truly catapulted us into activism came in early 2025, when Briana Davis stumbled upon a TikTok video about Superfund sites. What we discovered next changed everything: Anderson is home to a National Priority List Superfund site—a designation reserved for some of the most contaminated places in the Nation.
That discovery was the final confirmation that we were facing a full-blown water crisis in Madison County—one that had been hidden in plain sight. From that point on, we knew we couldn’t stay quiet. We had a duty to raise awareness, demand accountability, and fight for clean, safe water for everyone in our community.