ABC St. Louis.com by Brian Mattix Host Jamie Allman Guest: Dawn Chapman ST. LOUIS (KDNL/The Allman Report) – People who live near the Westlake Landfill near Bridgeton have been voicing concerns over radiation levels there for months. Now, they await the results of an independent…
STL Today.com Blythe Bernhard, Jacob Barker The lobbying arm of the company that owns the radioactive West Lake Landfill has escalated its efforts to keep the waste buried in Bridgeton. New ads on local radio and social media, and telemarketing calls and emails from a…
Veterans Today by Bob Nichols St. Louis and the Rad Problem St. Louis, now and forever more, will be remembered as a Manhattan Project nuclear garbage dump. It was for the most poisonous, flammable elements in the universe that just happen to also be radioactive….
cbsnews.com AP ST. LOUIS — The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday ordered surface fire prevention measures at a St. Louis-area landfill where nuclear waste was illegally dumped four decades ago. The order by EPA Region 7 Administrator Mark Hague requires companies associated with West Lake Landfill in…
C-span.org At 10:20 minutes, Rabbi Susan Talve of Central Reform Congregation in St. Louis states: “And I stand here for two groups of St. Louis Moms, one working to get guns off our streets and the other Working to help clean up the fires of…
St. Louis Public Radio Veronique LaCapra The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has found more radioactive contamination along a north St. Louis County creek. The latest round of sampling detected radioactive soil at three homes and four businesses near Coldwater Creek. That’s in addition to…
The Current (UMSL) by Sarah Bell Heated questions came from large crowd at landfill meeting It may not come as a surprise to many that radioactive waste has been detected at a site in St. Louis. St. Louis was the site of many of the…
Associated Press by Jim Salter ST. LOUIS (AP) — Four members of Missouri’s congressional delegation on Thursday called for the Army Corps of Engineers to take over remediation of the West Lake Landfill site in St. Louis County, saying the Environmental Protection Agency is moving…
Blunt.Senate.Gov by Roy Blunt WASHINGTON, DC – Today, members of the Missouri congressional delegation, including Senators Roy Blunt and Claire McCaskill, and Representatives Ann Wagner and Wm. Lacy Clay, introduced legislation to transfer remediation authority over the West Lake landfill from the Environmental Protection Agency to…
Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services November 4-5, 2015 Bridgeton/West Lake Landfill Radiological Sampling (Interim Report)
Examiner.com by Byron DeLear Many of you who have been following the ever-evolving West Lake Landfill story know the history of how the Manhattan Project, established during World War II to create the first working atomic weapons, produced over 125,000 tons of nuclear waste in St. Louis,…
Fox2Now.com Chris Regnier BRIDGETON, MO (KTVI)- An activist group is asking Missouri Governor Jay Nixon to declare a state of emergency at the West Lake Landfill. The group, Just Moms STL, delivered a petition with more than 11,000 signatures to Governor Nixon’s office today asking…
Neighbors clash with EPA over landfill findings, 10/26/2015 KSDK.com Jacob Long BRIDGETON, Mo. – Tempers flared repeatedly Monday at a public meeting about two controversial landfills in St. Louis County. Hundreds of concerned residents came out to get an update from officials with the Environmental Protection Agency….
Submitted to: U.S. EPA, Region 7 Prepared by: Tetra Tech, Inc. EPA has published its Emergency Response Activity Report for the surface fire that occurred at the West Lake Landfill Superfund Site on October 24, 2015. The surface fire did not threaten any radiologically impacted…
L.A. Times.com by Matt Pearce A fire is smoldering beneath a landfill in a densely populated suburb of St. Louis — and it has been there for five years. Underground landfill fires, or “smoldering events” as some officials call them, aren’t rare. What makes the…
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry An Evaluation of Radiation in Groundwater and Air, West Lake Operable Unit 1
CNN iReport By cdavison If ever there were an issue that needed executive action from the White House, it’s the radioactive West Lake Landfill. Located in densely populated north St. Louis County, the site contains nearly 50,000 tons of highly radiotoxic, uncontained nuclear waste produced…
St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Jacob Barker As anxiety grows in neighborhoods near the Bridgeton Landfill, newly released emergency plans may be of little comfort. Some say concern among residents and area officials has heightened since Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster released reports last month that said an…
Submitted to: State of Missouri Attorney General’s Office Prepared by: Dr. Joel G. Burken, Dr. Shoaib Usman West Lake Landfill Tree Core Analysis Report
Submitted to: Missouri Attorney General’s Office Prepared by: Don Wright & Associates, LLC Final Summary Report for Bridgeton Landfill Downwind
