UPDATE: Residents frustrated by EPA’s isolation barrier plan for West Lake Landfill, 01/11/2016

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…

St. Louis anxious about EPA plan for barrier between fire, toxic waste, 01/08/2016

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…

Study Finds Radioactive Waste at St. Louis-Area Landfill Has Migrated Off-Site, 01/02/2016

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…

EPA orders barrier installed to protect nuclear waste from underground fire near St. Louis, 01/02/2016

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…

The Looming Environmental Disaster in Missouri that Nobody is Talking About, 01/02/2016

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 —…

Your Radiation This Week No 34, 12/12/2015

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….

EPA orders fire prevention steps for troubled St. Louis landfill, 12/10/2015

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…

White House Afternoon Hanukkah Reception, 12/10/2015

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…

Lawmakers Want Corps, Not EPA, to Remediate Landfill, 11/19/2015

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…

Emergency Response Activity Report for 10/24/2015, Surface Fire, 12/07/2015

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…

Officials squabble as underground fire burns near radioactive waste dump in St. Louis area, 10/20/2015

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…

State of Emergency Needed in St. Louis due to Radioactive Contamination, 10/09/2015

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 Burning: A ticking time bomb beneath the city? 05/01/2015

Aljazeera America by Ryan Schuessler Nobody is really sure what is buried at the West Lake Landfill — or where MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Mo. — If it were any other morning after six inches of overnight snow in St. Louis, Dawn Chapman probably would have been…

St. Louis Burning: What killed the babies near Weldon Spring? 04/30/2015

Aljazeera America by Ryan Schuessler The grave of an infant who died in 2010 in the cemetery of Immaculate Conception Parish of Dardenne.Alexey Furman for Al Jazeera America This is part two of a three-part series investigating the effects of radioactive waste from the Manhattan…

St. Louis burning: America’s atomic legacy haunts city, 04/29/2015

America.Aljazeera.com Ryan Schuessler County parks, homes, businesses remain open and untested after decades of exposure to potentially contaminated creek This is part one of a three-part series examining the effects of radioactive waste from the Manhattan Project on St. Louis and its suburbs. HAZELWOOD, Mo….

Radioactive Waste in St. Louis at Risk From Smoldering Trash, 07/24/2014

The Wall Street Journal by John R. Emshwiller Updated July 24, 2014 1:19 p.m. ET Dawn Chapman, left, and Karen Nickel visit the West Lake landfill March 5. Ms. Chapman and Ms. Nickel are part of a watchdog group of residents concerned about the radioactive…

EPA: Baseball fields near Superfund site are safe, 05/01/2014

The Washington Times by Jim Salter, The Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) – The Environmental Protection Agency says there is no evidence of radiological contamination on the fields of a baseball complex near a suburban St. Louis Superfund site, despite private testing that raised enough…

Neighbors Fume at Radioactive Dump, 12/29/2013

The Wall Street Journal by John R. Emshwiller Legacy of Atomic-Era Weapons Work in St. Louis Suburb Stirs Worries About Health, Environment BRIDGETON, Mo.—A dispute is smoldering here, in one sense quite literally, over what to do with thousands of tons of radioactive waste in…

St. Louis Is Burning, 05/10/2013

Rolling Stone by Steven Hsieh An underground landfill fire near tons of nuclear waste raises serious health and safety concerns – so why isn’t the government doing more to help? There’s a fire burning in Bridgeton, Missouri. It’s invisible to area residents, buried deep beneath…

Mountain of Nuclear Waste Splits St. Louis and Suburbs, 03/24/1990

The New York Times by Keith Schneider ST. LOUIS— Nearly half a century after a company here began processing fuel for nuclear weapons, St. Louis and several western suburbs are battling over a new disposal plan for millions of cubic yards of dirt contaminated with uranium,…