By Bill Berry
As a researcher focusing on water quality, Byron Shaw was usually ahead of the pack. Consider this Shaw quote: “People are very concerned about pesticides, yet lead in water may be much more worrisome.” The date was Oct. 31, 1987, nearly three decades before lead poisoning in Flint, Michigan, became a national story.
Shaw, 73, died Friday, Oct. 21. He was a professor of water resources at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (UWSP) for 32 years, where he was also a UW-Extension water quality specialist. He retired in 2000, but continued to work on water quality issues as a consultant.
He was a resident of rural Amherst Junction, where he lived on a farmstead with his wife, Margaret.
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