EPA Plans Limited Tests of Bridgeton Ball Fields

http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2014/05/09/epa-plans-limited-tests-of-bridgeton-ball-fields/ EPA Regional Administrator Karl Brooks listens to concerns from residents about safety of Bridgeton ballfields   Kevin Killeen May 9, 2014 4:42 PM BRIDGETON, MO–(KMOX)–The EPA lays out its plans for testing little league ball fields for possible radioactive contamination from the nearby West Lake…

Bridgeton residents get new radiation results, 05/07/2014

KSDK by Farrah Fazal BRIDGETON, Mo. – Some important people are now paying attention to a group of moms worried about radiation at the Bridgeton Athletic Complex. Dawn Chapman and the other moms said the Environmental Protection Agency and the City of Bridgeton wouldn’t test the…

Editorial: The Bridgeton ball fields blues, 05/03/2014

St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Deb Peterson Photo by J.B. Forbes, jforbes@post-dispatch.com At ball fields across the St. Louis region this week, many conversations between innings likely went something like this: “You hear about the nuclear waste at the Bridgeton fields?” “Yeah, it sounds bad. My kids…

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…

Many concerned radioactive material is spreading out from Bridgeton Landfill, 04/28/2014

KMOV.com St. Louis by Brendan Marks (KMOV.com) – Many are concerned that measures to contain radioactive material inside the Bridgeton Landfill are failing. A meeting was held Monday evening in St. Charles so that concerned groups, EPA, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, and landfill…

AG takes two actions today on Bridgeton Landfill situation, 04/29/2014

***ATTENTION**** THANK YOU Attorney General Koster for helping this community fight for answers!! It’s time to stop messing around and get some solutions on the table….. April 29, 2014 AG takes two actions today on Bridgeton Landfill situation Jefferson City, Mo. – Attorney General Chris Koster…

St. Charles County Council passes Resolution, 04/28/2014

St. Charles County Council Substitute Resolution 13-17/14-04 – Sponsored by Joe Cronin – A Resolution requesting the United States Congress to transfer the responsibility for the radioactive waste cleanup at West Lake Landfill from the EPA Superfund Program to the Corps of Engineers formerly utilized…

How St. Louis became a Legacy Site, 02/12 to 02/19/1989

Have you ever wondered how the sites in St. Louis City, North St. Louis County, St. Charles [Weldon Springs], Hematite [Jefferson County] in Missouri and Madison County, IL became contaminated? The below document is a seven part series that ran in the St. Louis Post…

Bridgeton landfill owners to pay nearby residents $6.8 million in lawsuit over stink, 04/18/2014

St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Bylthe Bernhard Residents who live in the 400 homes closest to the smoldering Bridgeton Landfill will be compensated thousands of dollars for enduring foul odors from the site in an agreement reached Thursday in a lawsuit against the landfill’s owners. Bridgeton…

St Louis County Regional West Lake Landfill Community Meeting, 04/17/2014

Concerned Citizens Meeting to learn the latest news on the sub-surface smoldering event [SSE] aka Fire at the Bridgeton Landfill that is less than 1000 feet from the West Lake Landfill that contains some of the actual waste from the Manhattan Project. The Community is asking…

Mesh barrier to be placed at West Lake Landfill along St. Charles Rock Road, 04/16/2014

STL Today.com by Blythe Bernhard The owners of the radioactive West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton will place a mesh barrier inside the fence along St. Charles Rock Road to capture “windblown solid waste” during an upcoming dig, according to an agreement effective today. A mesh…

Bridgeton City Council Meeting, 04/16/2014

Please take the time to watch this recent Bridgeton City Council Meeting from April 16, 2014 (start video around 146.0 minutes). VIDEO This is unbelievable! They are in denial of the problem they have. They called Dawn Chapman out as a liar!  Some of them are…

Law firm donates radiation detector to residents around West Lake Landfill, 04/15/2014

STL Today.com by Blythe Bernhard The group Just Moms StL received from the Finney Law Office today a GammaPal device that can detect radiation in soil. A main area of concern is the ball fields at the Bridgeton Municipal Athletic Complex less than a mile…

Moms want to test for radiation in Bridgeton, 04/15/2014

KSDK.com by Casey Nolen ST. LOUIS COUNTY (KSDK) – If the federal government won’t test for radiation, some West Lake Landfill neighbors say they’ll do it themselves. Dawn Chapman and her group, Just Moms STL, plan to deploy radiation detectors in St. Louis County by…

In light of the recently published article about additional rad waste found offsite, 04/14/2014

About a month ago, us Mom’s had gotten wind of possible migrating to Bridgeton Municipal Athletic Association BMAC.  We decided it would be in the community’s best interest to test with the money we had available at the time. We had enough funds to get…

Lawsuit: West Lake Landfill radioactivity has spread off-site, 04/11/2014

STL Today.com by Robert Patrick, Blythe Bernhard ST. LOUIS • A lawyer for a man who has lived near the West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton for more than 30 years, and the lawsuit that he filed Friday, say for the first time that radiation has…

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…

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