The community received this letter from Pattonville School District, addressed to Karl Brooks and the EPA, asking for the site to be turned over to FUSRAP. Thank you Pattonville and Dr. Fulton for supporting your community! Full Pattonville EPA letter
02.28.14_Westlake_Letter_to_EPA_Region_7 ++++++++++++++++++ V E R Y .. I M P O R T A N T ++++++++++++++++ The attached letter is what hard work, dedicatin and doing the right thing looks like! Going to the ends of the earth to protect your family and your…
Thank You North County Incorporated and the Board Members : http://northstlouiscounty.com/wp/ Support growing for federal takeover of Westlake Landfill Thank You, County Executive Charlie Dooley. CAD_West_Lake_Landfill_EPA_Letter_2_24_2014[1]
Posted on: 7:00 pm, February 22, 2014, by Shirley Washington (KPLR) – This week on “The Pulse of St. Louis”, a panel discussion on the Bridgeton Landfill. State Attorney General, Chris Koster, visited the Bridgeton Landfill and Westlake Landfill Monday after a fire broke out…
By Blythe Bernhard bbernhard@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8129 A fire at the Bridgeton Landfill on Sunday and the ongoing battle to keep a separate, underground fire from reaching radioactive waste at an adjoining site have so unsettled nearby residents that they are raising money for their own radiation…
Click Here for more on the story by : Jeanie Smith and Allison Sylte, KSDK7:10 p.m. EST February 16, 2014 Officials: Bridgeton Landfill didn’t report surface fire Feb. 17, 2014 — Update – Potential for Odors — Republic Services notified the department late this afternoon of a malfunctioning…
Grant Bissell, KSDK8:52 p.m. EST February 17, 2014 After yesterday’s above-ground fire at the Bridgeton Landfill, we wanted to know what kind of safety measures are in place to protect residents near the landfill. ST. LOUIS (KSDK) – Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster is…
Hi Everyone: Some additional information and photo’s from the incident today, February 16, 2014 at the Bridgeton Landfill South Quarry. This information was reported/posted by Grant Bissell with News Channel 5: I just got this statement from Republic in regards to this morning’s fire: “SMALL,…
February 16, 2014 At around 9:30 am , a citizen posted on the West Lake Landfill Facebook page the three photo’s below and a message that she had contacted 911 to report the smoke coming out of the landfill on the southwestern edge of the…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
