EPA fudged its 2014 test results of the Bridgeton Athletic Complex, 06/07/2017

Stella Maris Productions The EPA fudged its 2014 test results of the Bridgeton Athletic Complex, assuring the public that the ballfields were safe, while withholding data that warranted further investigation.  Internal EPA emails show the agency was aware that radiation levels at the Bridgeton Athletic…

Missouri delegation to try again to shift cleanup of West Lake to Corps of Engineers, 05/22/2017

St. Louis Post-Dispatch By Chuck Raasch WASHINGTON • Members of Missouri’s congressional delegation plan to re-introduce legislation Wednesday that would shift cleanup responsibility of the West Lake Landfill from the Environmental Protection Agency to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, even though the Corps has…

Editorial: EPA’s findings around West Lake Landfill prompt conflict-of-interest questions, 05/22/2017

St. Louis Post-Dispatch by The Editorial Board The Environmental Protection Agency’s announcement Thursday that test results showed no evidence of radioactive contamination in Bridgeton houses near the West Lake Landfill would have been more reassuring if EPA had not chosen a testing company that lists…

Farm family sues Bridgeton landfill owners over radiation, 05/09/2017

St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Robert Patrick ST. LOUIS COUNTY • Twenty-seven owners of a farm adjacent to the West Lake and Bridgeton landfills sued the landfills’ owners and two landfill workers in St. Louis County Circuit Court Thursday, alleging that radioactive waste has contaminated the…

Concerns, uncertainty continue to shroud West Lake cleanup, 09/04/2016

St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Bryce Gray A southern view of the Bridgeton Landfill where plastic membrane covers up hundreds of feet of garbage and various pipes direct leachate to the treatment plant, on Friday, Aug. 28, 2015 in Bridgeton. Photo by Huy Mach, hmach@post-dispatch.com While…

State wins approval to test groundwater near radioactive waste at West Lake Landfill, 08/25/2016

St. Louis Public Radio by Eli Chen A special master has allowed the state to proceed with groundwater testing at wells in the portion of the West Lake Landfill where World War II-era radioactive waste has been detected. The decision Wednesday in a circuit court of…

Champ Landfill might be stinkier than Bridgeton Landfill, 08/19/2016

St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Blythe Bernard Something stinks in Bridgeton, but the source isn’t always obvious. Neighbors of the Bridgeton Landfill have complained of a foul stench since an underground fire started there in 2010. The Fred Weber asphalt plant in neighboring Maryland Heights also…

Residents demand that EPA fully remove radioactive waste from the West Lake Landfill, 08/15/2016

St. Louis Public Radio by Eli Chen At an EPA-hosted community meeting about the West Lake Landfill Superfund site, Sen. Jill Schupp asks for a show of hands regarding support for full excavation of radioactive waste. ELI CHEN Residents and local officials continued to press…

New Report shows EPA’s own experts disagree on Region 7 assessment of wastes and solution at West Lake Landfill, 07/22/2016

by Just Moms STL New Report shows EPA’s own experts disagree on Region 7 assessment of wastes and solution at West Lake Landfill.A new report released by Bob Alvarez and Lucas Hixson draws conclusion from the newly released EPA National Remedy and Review Board critique as well…

Army Corps of Engineers is right choice to clean up landfill, 07/21/2016

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Letters to the Editor by Karen Nickel Regarding “Plan to shift West Lake cleanup to Corps hits roadblock” (July 14): Last week, I traveled to Washington to observe Reps. William Lacy Clay, D-St. Louis, and Ann Wagner, R-Ballwin, testify about the Environmental…

Editorial: Regulatory agencies treating West Lake Landfill like a hot potato, 07/14/2016

St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Editorial Board Rep. Ann Wagner, R-Ballwin, pounded a witness table in frustration Wednesday over yet another obstacle to getting a federal cleanup of the nuclear waste at West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton. And she’s right. This is a table-pounding moment. Wagner…

Bipartisan legislation needed to address radioactive landfill in St. Louis, 07/08/2016

The Hill by Ed Smith The radioactive West Lake Landfill Superfund site in St. Louis County, Missouri, should have always been under the jurisdiction of the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP). FUSRAP is a nuclear waste cleanup program run by the Army Corps…

Messenger: Activist won’t back down in quest to rid St. Louis of nuclear waste, 06/17/16

St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Tony Messenger Kay Drey owes me a quarter. Sitting across from me last week at her dining room table in University City, the 83-year-old environmentalist handed me a stack of documents and issued a challenge similar to one she’s made at…