Kevin Killeen February 13, 2014 5:46 AM BRIDGETON, Mo. (KMOX) – Saying the status quo isn’t working, a group of nuns wants Congress to authorize a total cleanup of radioactive material at the West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton. The Franciscan Sisters of Mary are lobbying the…
KSDK.com by Leisa Zigman Tuesday afternoon, SSM DePaul Health Center joined a growing chorus of voices connected to the West Lake Landfill asking the EPA to step aside.Last month, Washington University geochemist Bob Criss raised the same concerns. Here is a statement provided to News…
Maryland Heights Township Democratic Club hosted a panel to discuss the events occurring in regards to the Bridgeton Landfill Fire, the radioactive nuclear waste at the adjoining West Lake Landfill and Cold Water Creek’s Health Data that was recently released.
The Franciscan Sisters of Mary (Bridgeton) invite you to bundle up to join us in prayer tomorrow morning! We welcome Franciscan-hearted people, of all faiths, to come together for short prayer near the West Lake Landfill. The building protects us from most of the wind…
Leisa Zigman, KSDK7:16 p.m. EST February 7, 2014 No one disputes the fact that the West Lake Landfill has about 7,000 tons of radioactive nuclear waste. What is unclear is whether there is a threat to public health. Link to the Story by Leisa Zigman
Leisa Zigman, KSDK8:41 p.m. EST February 6, 2014 BRIDGETON, Mo. – NewsChannel 5 has obtained hundreds of documents regarding the health risks at the West Lake Landfill, dating back to the mid-1980s. Based on these 30-year-old documents, it appears public officials today are contradicting what was…
Below is a Generic Letter to the Elected Officials that can be copied and pasted into an email. Or if you would prefer to send the letter out thorough the postal service you can click on this Generic Letter to the Elected Officials and print the…
By the Editorial Board Companies have been dumping waste at the West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton since the 1950s. Radioactive materials, created as a byproduct of Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, were dumped in a 200-acre hole there beginning in 1973. So the fact that there are problems at…
KSDK.com by Leisa Zigman New documents about politcs, money and a possible explanation as to why people in Bridgeton and north county are now dealing with the fallout from the atomic age. http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/local/2014/01/30/west-lake-landfill-nuclear-waste-responsibility/5064891/
Leisa Zigman, KSDK8:55 p.m. EST January 30, 2014 In a strongly worded statement, Pattonville Fire Chief Terry Loehrer angrily defended his department’s position about the growing concerns regarding the Bridgeton Landfill fires breaching the interceptor wells.
KSDK.com Leisa Zigman ST. LOUIS COUNTY – Documents obtained by 5 on Your Side show how one government agency, the Department of Energy, went to great length to avoid any responsibility for cleaning up the West Lake Landfill.
Wash U geochemist: Fire & radioactive particles collide at landfill – Leisa Zigman, KSDK 12:15 a.m. EST January 30, 2014 ST. LOUIS COUNTY – There’s new information about the West Lake Landfill and the underground fires causing so much concern in our area. For the first…
Published on Jan 29, 2014 Policy Analyst Harvey Ferdman joins McGraw and Kelly to discuss the WestLake Landfill. Link to Story: WestLake Landfill Continues To Burn Yet Nothing Is Done
by John Bailey KMOV.com Posted on January 28, 2014 at 5:26 PM Updated today at 6:21 PM (KMOV.com) – Tuesday night, new dangers exposed at Bridgeton’s Westlake Landfill have caused worries over worker safety. The Missouri Coalition for the Environment says EPA testing found large amounts…
BRIDGETON, Mo. – New information released Tuesday paints a clearer picture of the growing problems at the radioactive West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton. NewsChannel 5 got a look at a map of a portion of the landfill known as Area 1. It shows where the Environmental Protection…
A Photo Story of the Manhattan Project’s beginning in 1942 the St. Louis Area, starting with Mallinckrodt Chemical Works and the spreading out into the St. Louis North Couty Area and St. Charles County Area where it remains to this day. All but one…
UPDATED on January 22, 2014 Below is a copy of the January 15, 2014 letter from Republic to the Pattonville Fire Protection District requesting a new liason be appointed to replace Asst. Fire Chief Matt LaVanchy and the Response Letter from Pattonville to Republic and…
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One might mistake it for a plot out of a horror film or a slow-motion Fukushima disaster: Underground fires at one landfill move closer and closer toward radioactive waste dumped decades earlier at another landfill. At the same time, thousands of citizens, including many already…
This has been CANCELLED due to the Weather. ** Forecast of snow overnight is expected to be lighter in west St. Louis and hopefully the roads will be cleared. We will post by 8:30 a.m. if weather conditions prevent us from meeting. The Franciscan Sisters…
