Chappelle-Nadal wants state to buy out homes near West Lake Landfill, 01/26/2015

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…

West Lake Landfill Vicinity, Radiological Survey & Sampling Interim Report, 01/2016

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

Residents Near Bridgeton Landfill Subject of New Health Survey, 01/21/2016

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…

West Lake Citizens Headed to Washington Over Nuclear Waste, 01/06/2016

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.

EPA proceeds with long-delayed barrier between burning landfill and radioactive waste, 12/31/2015

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…

New study shows vast offsite radioactive contamination from West Lake Landfill, 12/30/2015

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…

Rainwater runoff from Bridgeton Landfill being tested, 12/29/2015

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…

Editorial: Politics and money drive advocates of keeping radioactive waste in Bridgeton, 12/17/2015

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…

Neighbors Of Westlake Landfill Anxiously Await Results of Independent Scientific Study Of Radiation Levels, 12/16/2015

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…

West Lake Landfill Owners Step Up Lobbying Efforts, 12/14/2015

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…

Army Corps finds more radioactive soil at homes and businesses in north St. Louis County, 12/07/2015

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…

West Lake Landfill Discussed at Meeting, 12/07/2015

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…

Missouri Members Demand Action on West Lake Landfill, 11/19/2015

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…

Part 1: Does existing law already order the ‘recall’ of radwaste at West Lake? 11/04/2015

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,…

Activists want state of emergency declared at West Lake Landfill, 10/28/2015

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…

Brush Fire at Bridgeton Landfill, 10/24/2015

Just Moms STL Here are pictures taken at the Bridgeton Landfill on October 24, 2015, while the grass was burning.  The winds at the time were between 13-15 mph from West or West- Northwest.  This was just 3.5 to 4 car lengths from the West Lake…

Anxiety rises near Bridgeton Landfill as emergency plans disclosed, 10/05/2015

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…