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WE NEED EVERYONES HELP!!!!!! Remember there is power in numbers! We are focusing on making phone calls to Senator Blunts office for the rest of this week. EVERY DAY from 8am-4pm please call his WASHINGTON DC office. Make it a part of your daily routine!!!!…
Health Risks from West Lake Landfill Continue – KTRS
EPA To Test Popular Bridgeton Baseball Fields For Radiation
By VÉRONIQUE LACAPRA http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/epa-test-popular-bridgeton-baseball-fields-radiation Updated 5/9/14 after EPA press conference The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will soon begin testing a popular athletic complex in Bridgeton for radiation. The EPA will scan all the outdoor areas of the Bridgeton Municipal Athletic Complex, except the parking lots,…
Why are Lafayette County Republicans interested in West Lake Landfill?
April 10, 2014 By Blythe Bernhard bbernhard@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8129 Why do Republican leaders in a rural county outside Kansas City care so much about a radioactive landfill in Bridgeton? They are concerned about the possibility of nuclear waste being hauled through their area. They also have…
McClellan: Auto repair shop next door to Hades is forced to move
April 9, 2014 By Bill McClellan bmcclellan@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8143 A cap meant to alleviate odors covers Republic Services’ Bridgeton Landfill on Friday, Aug. 30, 2013. Stephanie S. Cordle, scordle@post-dispatch.com Dan’s Automotive Service is at the end of Boenker Lane.It is where the world ends. Right up against…
West Lake Landfill owners start group to lobby to keep nuclear waste in place
April 9, 2014 By Blythe Bernhard bbernhard@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8129 Republic Services, the company that owns the radioactive West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton, has launched a lobbying group that is pushing to keep the waste buried instead of hauling it to a nuclear dump site in the western U.S….
Editorial: Concern about the Bridgeton landfills is not enough
By the Editorial Board April 1, 2014 Link: Won’t somebody please take responsibility for the landfill with the smoldering event? The hot-potato game being played by state and federal officials, legal representatives and Republic Services, operator of the Bridgeton and West Lake landfills, isn’t fair to the…
Dec. 18, 2013 – Bridgeton Landfill work crews continue to work on a clean-up of a leachate spill that occurred last week.
The DNR has updated their site with pictures of last weeks 40,000 gallon leachate spill in which they are still cleaning up as of today. Attached is a link you can scroll through and look at the photos…..http://www.dnr.mo.gov/bridgeton/index.html Dec. 18, 2013 – Bridgeton Landfill work crews…
Has Radioactive Waste in the Bridgeton Landfill Reached the Ground Water?
Wednesday, December 11, 2013 on The McGraw Show; Policy Advisor for State Representative Bill Otto; Harvey Ferdman talks about the newest report released on Monday regarding the finding of more radioactive waste at the Bridgeton / West Lake Landfill. To watch the interview, please click…
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New Update from MO DNR – Nov. 22, 2013
Nov. 22, 2013 – While inclement weather prevented drilling on Thursday, Nov. 21, Bridgeton Landfill reported 21 of 30 gas extraction wells and all of the toe drain collection sumps for the North Quarry area have been completed. Bridgeton staff advised the heavy construction work…
Nuclear critic urges removal of radioactive waste at West Lake Landfill
News story by the St. Louis Post Dispatch – By JEFFREY TOMICH jtomich@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8320 BRIDGETON • The West Lake Landfill is, in reality, an unregulated radioactive waste dump that should be cleaned up under the same federal program as similar St. Louis-area sites contaminated with World…
Hot Spot Near West Lake Landfill Raises Concerns
ST. LOUIS–(KMOX)–An environmental group is warning a new underground fire could be forming at a Bridgeton landfill — closer to buried nuclear waste than the current fire. The existing underground fire at the Bridgeton Sanitary Landfill was last reported about twelve-hundred feet from the West…
Republic submits 2nd contingency plan to MO DNR.
Republic Services has submitted a second ‘Contingency Plan’ to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (MO DNR) for dealing with the fire at Westlake Landfill in the event that the fire reaches the Isolation break. The link to the full contingency plan is located here (in…
Pattonville Firefighters Issue Dire Warning on Nuclear Waste
Article originally published by CBS St Louis BRIDGETON, Mo. (KMOX) – A prominent fire commander is calling for the removal of nuclear waste from the West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton as his department monitors an underground landfill fire nearby. “We need to quit talking about it…
Could Dooley Do More to Rid County of Nuclear Waste?
Original Article from CBS St Louis BRIDGETON, Mo. (KMOX) – With an underground landfill fire burning near a nuclear dump site, activists want St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley to champion the removal of nuclear waste. “People want this radioactive waste removed,” said Dawn Chapman, a…
Chrissy sings ‘Radioactive’ by ‘Imagine Dragons’
St Louis is Burning
Article from ‘Rolling Stones’ Magazine about the landfill fire. St. Louis Is Burning 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? A bulldozer pushes trash in a landfill….