Neighbors Take Landfill Concerns to the UN, 05/03/2016
KSDK by Art Holliday The meeting was only supposed to be 45 minutes, but was nearly twice as long. http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/neighbors-take-landfill-concerns-to-the-un/167931750
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EPA orders more fire control measures at West Lake landfill, 04/28/2016
St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Jacob Barker The owner of the Bridgeton Landfill will install more cooling loops and temperature monitors and expand a plastic cover over the Bridgeton Landfill in an effort to keep an underground fire from reaching radioactive waste. Federal authorities announced the…
Owner of burning, reeking Missouri landfill nearing Cold War nuclear waste agrees to new EPA steps, 04/29/216
The Japan Times AP KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI – The owner of a burning suburban St. Louis landfill near buried radioactive waste has agreed to new measures meant to slow and help monitor the underground blaze, a U.S. Environmental Agency administrator said Thursday. While stressing there’s no…
Radioactive Hot Spot Prompts Researchers’ Concerns, 04/28/2016
The Wall Street Journal by John R. Emshwiller About a mile from homes in Missouri’s St. Louis County lies a radioactive hot spot with contamination levels hundreds of times above federal safety guidelines. But there are no plans to clean it up. That is because the location, tainted with waste from atomic-weapons…
EPA orders work to start on landfill barrier, 04/28/2016
KSDK.com The E.P.A. is ordering Republic Services to begin work on a barrier that will ensure an underground fire at the Bridgeton Landfill never reaches nuclear waste buried at the West Lake Landfill. http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/epa-orders-work-to-start-on-landfill-barrier/158404256
EPA – West Lake Update, 04/28/2016
Environmental Protection Agency April 28, 2016 EPA Reaches Agreement with Bridgton Landfill for Installation of Components of Isolation Barrier System West Lake Update, April 28, 2016
Koster’s Bridgeton Landfill lawsuit back in county court, 04/26/2016
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Jacob Barker A federal judge is sending Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster’s environmental lawsuit against the owner of the Bridgeton Landfill back to St. Louis County Circuit Court. In October, Republic Services, the owner of the burning Bridgeton Landfill and the adjacent…
REGIONAL WEST LAKE LANDFILL COMMUNITY MEETING, 04/21/2016
Regional West Lake Landfill Community Meeting, 03/17/2016
Protestors Concerned About Westlake Landfill, 04/18/2016
KSDK.com by Jacob Long A demonstration is getting underway in Bridgeton over radioactive waste that was illegally dumped in North St. Louis County. http://www.ksdk.com/mb/news/local/protestors-concerned-about-westlake-landfill/141575001
Newly Formed Group Protests Handling of West Lake Landfill, 04/18/2016
CBS St. Louis by Brett Blume BRIDGETON, Mo. (KMOX) – There’s a new group entering the fray surrounding the underground fire near nuclear waste at the West Lake landfill in Bridgeton. Citing what she calls “deteriorating conditions” at the site, Susan Lorel Folle and her fellow…
Landfill Demonstrators Face Off Against EPA, 04/18/2016
KSDK.com by Jacob Long http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/landfill-demonstrators-face-off-against-epa/141897388
STL landfill fire nears collision with radioactive waste: What’s next? 04/18/2016
Occasional Planet by Gloria Shur Bilchik What happens when a landfill fire meets a radioactive waste dump? St. Louis, Missouri, may be the first metropolitan area to find out. In North St. Louis County, near the St. Louis Airport, and a mile from Pattonville High…
Republic Services Loses Appeal, Must Build Barrier at Westlake Landfill, 04/13/2016
CBS – St. Louis KMOX BRIDGETON (KMOX) – The owners of the burning Bridgeton Landfill lost their appeal of a state order to install a heat extraction barrier in the neck of the landfill, designed to slow the underground fire from reaching buried nuclear waste. The…
AG Koster announces dismissal of Republic Services, Inc.’s appeal over installing heat-extraction cooling loops, 04/13/2016
BREAKING NEWS AG Koster announces dismissal of Republic Services, Inc.’s appeal over installing heat-extraction cooling loops at Bridgeton Landfill April 13, 2016, 4:41 PM Jefferson City, Mo. – Attorney General Chris Koster announced today that the Administrative Hearing Commission has dismissed an appeal of the Missouri…
Ghosts Of Hiroshima Haunt Fuming Landfill Near Ferguson, Missouri, 04/13/2016
Seattle Medium by Josh Peterson Urban News Service By Josh Peterson Urban News Service BRIDGETON, Mo. – Outside Ferguson, Missouri, another issue burns. This time, it’s environmental. An underground fire smolders toward radioactive waste tied to the atomic bombs that leveled Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This…
Update Closure, Post-Closure and Submission of Corrective Action Plans and Financial Service, Bridgeton Sanitary Landfill… 03/16/2016
Missouri Department of Natural Resources Submitted to: Bridgeton Sanitary Landfill, Republic Services, Inc. Update Closure, Post-Closure and Submission of Corrective Action Plans and Financial Service, Bridgeton Sanitary Landfill, Permit Number 0118912, St. Louis County Excerpt:
EPA takes half measures to save face on radioactive West Lake Landfill, 04/07/2016
The Examiner by Byron DeLear After the recent revelation of the Environmental Protection Agency“deciding” to remove offsite radwaste at the West Lake Landfill—something they’ve essentially denied existing for years—the beleaguered agency is now grasping at half-measured solutions in its handling of the smoldering, radioactive site. Due to a transfer-bill recently…
Editorial: Stop squabbling and clean up the West Lake Landfill, 04/06/2016
St. Louis Post-Dispatch by the Editorial Board Residents near the West Lake and Bridgeton landfills are finally getting responses from the Environmental Protection Agency to their concerns about living next to a radioactive dumpsite precariously exposed to an advancing underground fire. After leadfooting it for years, the EPA…
Radioactive contamination found on private property next to West Lake Landfill, 04/02/2016
St. Louis Public Radio by Stephanie Lecci The Missouri Department of Natural Resources is confirming that radioactive contamination has been found in soil “on private property” adjacent to the West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton. Data released Friday shows two soil samples have levels of thorium higher than…