KMOV.com St. Louis by Brendan Marks (KMOV.com) – Many are concerned that measures to contain radioactive material inside the Bridgeton Landfill are failing. A meeting was held Monday evening in St. Charles so that concerned groups, EPA, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, and landfill…
***ATTENTION**** THANK YOU Attorney General Koster for helping this community fight for answers!! It’s time to stop messing around and get some solutions on the table….. April 29, 2014 AG takes two actions today on Bridgeton Landfill situation Jefferson City, Mo. – Attorney General Chris Koster…
St. Charles County Council Substitute Resolution 13-17/14-04 – Sponsored by Joe Cronin – A Resolution requesting the United States Congress to transfer the responsibility for the radioactive waste cleanup at West Lake Landfill from the EPA Superfund Program to the Corps of Engineers formerly utilized…
Have you ever wondered how the sites in St. Louis City, North St. Louis County, St. Charles [Weldon Springs], Hematite [Jefferson County] in Missouri and Madison County, IL became contaminated? The below document is a seven part series that ran in the St. Louis Post…
Missouri Department of Natural Resources Notice of Violation: Bridgeton Landfill LLC http://www.dnr.mo.gov/bridgeton/docs/form7801647novslr2014021711434218.pdf
St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Bylthe Bernhard Residents who live in the 400 homes closest to the smoldering Bridgeton Landfill will be compensated thousands of dollars for enduring foul odors from the site in an agreement reached Thursday in a lawsuit against the landfill’s owners. Bridgeton…
Concerned Citizens Meeting to learn the latest news on the sub-surface smoldering event [SSE] aka Fire at the Bridgeton Landfill that is less than 1000 feet from the West Lake Landfill that contains some of the actual waste from the Manhattan Project. The Community is asking…
STL Today.com by Blythe Bernhard The owners of the radioactive West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton will place a mesh barrier inside the fence along St. Charles Rock Road to capture “windblown solid waste” during an upcoming dig, according to an agreement effective today. A mesh…
Please take the time to watch this recent Bridgeton City Council Meeting from April 16, 2014 (start video around 146.0 minutes). VIDEO This is unbelievable! They are in denial of the problem they have. They called Dawn Chapman out as a liar! Some of them are…
STL Today.com by Blythe Bernhard The group Just Moms StL received from the Finney Law Office today a GammaPal device that can detect radiation in soil. A main area of concern is the ball fields at the Bridgeton Municipal Athletic Complex less than a mile…
Big 550 KTRS with McGraw Milhaven Guest: Policy Analyst Harvey Ferdman
KSDK.com by Casey Nolen ST. LOUIS COUNTY (KSDK) – If the federal government won’t test for radiation, some West Lake Landfill neighbors say they’ll do it themselves. Dawn Chapman and her group, Just Moms STL, plan to deploy radiation detectors in St. Louis County by…
About a month ago, us Mom’s had gotten wind of possible migrating to Bridgeton Municipal Athletic Association BMAC. We decided it would be in the community’s best interest to test with the money we had available at the time. We had enough funds to get…
STL Today.com by Robert Patrick, Blythe Bernhard ST. LOUIS • A lawyer for a man who has lived near the West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton for more than 30 years, and the lawsuit that he filed Friday, say for the first time that radiation has…
April 10, 2014 By Blythe Bernhard bbernhard@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8129 Why do Republican leaders in a rural county outside Kansas City care so much about a radioactive landfill in Bridgeton? They are concerned about the possibility of nuclear waste being hauled through their area. They also have…
April 9, 2014 By Bill McClellan bmcclellan@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8143 A cap meant to alleviate odors covers Republic Services’ Bridgeton Landfill on Friday, Aug. 30, 2013. Stephanie S. Cordle, scordle@post-dispatch.com Dan’s Automotive Service is at the end of Boenker Lane.It is where the world ends. Right up against…
April 9, 2014 By Blythe Bernhard bbernhard@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8129 Republic Services, the company that owns the radioactive West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton, has launched a lobbying group that is pushing to keep the waste buried instead of hauling it to a nuclear dump site in the western U.S….
By the Editorial Board April 1, 2014 Link: Won’t somebody please take responsibility for the landfill with the smoldering event? The hot-potato game being played by state and federal officials, legal representatives and Republic Services, operator of the Bridgeton and West Lake landfills, isn’t fair to the…
Bridgeton And West Lake Landfills 8:32 PM MON MARCH 31, 2014 By VÉRONIQUE LACAPRA A new analysis by scientists at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency suggests there could be risks to area residents if an underground fire were to reach radioactive waste at the West Lake Landfill….
