The Japan Times AP BRIDGETON, MISSOURI – A Missouri agency has found more off-site radiation contamination near a St. Louis-area landfill where nuclear waste was illegally dumped four decades ago. KMOX-AM (cbsloc.al/1PjM5iW ) reports that the Missouri Department of Natural Resources said gamma radiation was…
The Kansas City Star by Robert A. Cronkleton A fire at the Courtney Ridge Recycling and Disposal Facility in Sugar Creek burned through the night and into Thursday. A passer-by noticed the fire at the landfill at 1701 N. Missouri 291 shortly before 11 p.m….
St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Jack Suntrup JEFFERSON CITY • Meagan Beckermann begged a Senate panel Tuesday approve a bill that would let the state buy her home. She lives in Bridgeton, near the West Lake Landfill. And not much farther away is Coldwater Creek, which is…
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Missouri Department of Natural Resources January 2016 West Lake Landfill Vicinity, Radiological Survey & Sampling Interim Report Rep. Otto Praises DNR’s efforts to Identify Landfill Contamination, Jan. 26, 2016
CBS St. Louis ST. LOUIS COUNTY (KMOX)Residents around the burning Bridgeton Landfill will be the subject of a new study by the St. Louis County Health Department. The health department is preparing a survey of residents living near the landfill to determine if they have…
WasteDive.com by Arlene Karidis UPDATE: Despite plans to build an underground barrier between Bridgeton Landfill and West Lake Landfill, residents have reported to be frustrated and claim the fire-prevention efforts are not enough, according to International Business Times and Al Jazeera. “It’s looking more and more like removal is the only…
International Business Times by Adam Lidgett While the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to go ahead with the building of a firebreak between an underground fire and a nuclear-waste site in suburban St. Louis, area residents indicated they are frustrated by the situation, Al Jazeera reported Saturday….
Aljazeera America.com by Ryan Schuessler Statement on barrier between underground fire and radioactive waste comes after study shows contamination is spreading Those living near a landfill complex in suburban St. Louis where an underground fire is burning near Cold War-era nuclear weapons waste say they…
CBS St. Louis Help Send Just Moms STL to Washington, DC! Related story: Landfill Neighbors to Deliver Signatures to Governor’s Office Chapman says with so much uncertainty about the underground fires no one can say the landfills were ever under control.
NASDAQ.com Dow Jones Business News by John R. Emshwiller and Gary Fields Shutterstock photo Radioactive contamination from a St. Louis-area landfill containing nuclear-weapons-related waste likely has migrated off-site, according to a study published this week in a scientific journal. One of the authors of the…
Los Angeles Times by Associated Press The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered the installation of an isolation barrier to make sure that an underground fire does not reach buried nuclear waste at a suburban St. Louis landfill. Mark Hague, EPA regional administrator, who…
AntiMedia.org Claire Bernish (ANTIMEDIA) St. Louis, MO — What happens when radioactive byproduct from the Manhattan Project comes into contact with an “underground fire” at a landfill? Surprisingly, no one actually knows for sure; but residents of Bridgeton, Missouri, near the West Lake and Bridgeton Landfills —…
St. Louis County Department of Public Health by Faisal Khan, MBBS, MPH, Director The Legacy of the Manhattan Project in St. Louis: Cancer Concern?
St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Jacob Barker The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday that it would require a barrier separating the radioactively contaminated West Lake Landfill from the smoldering Bridgeton Landfill. It’s a decision that has been under consideration for more than two years. “Based on…
The Examiner.com by Byron DeLear Today, a new peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity concludes there is “strong evidence” that radioactive substances are in a constant state of offsite migration from the West Lake Landfill. Specifically, numerous soil, dust, and sediment samples…
STL Today.com Blythe Bernhard Storm water runoff at the West Lake Landfill Superfund site in Bridgeton. Photo courtesy state Rep. Bill Otto. Storm water runoff from the smoldering Bridgeton Landfill will be tested for contamination, state officials said Tuesday. The water on Monday poured over…
St. Louis Post-Dispatch by the Editorial Board The let’s-keep-radioactive-waste-buried-in-Bridgeton crowd is not what it’s pretending to be. More than a group of concerned citizens who say they don’t want contaminated waste transported through their communities, the righteously named “Coalition to Keep Us Safe” is a political campaign…
Journal of Environmental Radioactivity by Marco P.J. Kaltofen, Robert Alvarez, Lucas Hixson December 7, 2015 Tracking Legacy Radionuclides in St. Louis, Missouri, via Unsupported 210Pb
