Bridgeton Landfill neighbors seek action after surface fire, more odors

 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…

Photos of the work on the southwest slope Bridgeton Landfill, Feb. 16, 2014.

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…

Attorney General investigating Sunday’s landfill fire

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…

Additional Photos from Today’s, February 12, 2014 above ground surface fire on the Southwest side of the South Quarry of the Bridgeton Landfill

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,…

Smoke Rising from the Landfill this Morning raises further concerns by the Citizens

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…

Red flags raised after hundreds of dead fish surface near West Lake Landfill, 02/15/2014

KMOV.com (KMOV) — Hundreds of dead fish surfaced near a controversial landfill raised red flags on Tuesday.  Residents want to know what caused the death of some many fish in a lake near the West Lake Landfill where radioactive waste is buried.  The lake sits…

Nuns Ask Congress: “Clean-Up Radioactive Waste”

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…

Evaluation of Possible Impacts of a Potential Subsurface Smoldering Event, Operable Unit-1, West Lake Landfill, 02/13/2014

Submitted to: Missouri Department of Natural Resources Prepared by: Todd Thalhamer, Landfill Consultant Evaluation of Possible Impacts of a Potential Subsurface Smoldering Event, Operable Unit-1, West Lake Landfill

Evaluation of Possible Impacts of a Potential Subsurface Smoldering Event, Operable Unit-1, West Lake Landfill, 02/13/2014

Submitted to: Missouri Department of Natural Resources Prepared by: Todd Thalhamer, Landfill Consultant Data Package Review for the Month of July and August 2014 for Bridgeton Landfill

Hospital asks EPA to step aside at West Lake Landfill, 02/11/2014

KSDK.com by Leisa Zigman Tuesday afternoon, SSM DePaul Health Center joined a growing chorus of voices connected to the West Lake Landfill asking the EPA to step aside.Last month, Washington University geochemist Bob Criss raised the same concerns. Here is a statement provided to News…

Community Panel Discussion West Lake/Bridgeton Landfills & Coldwater Creek Health Data, 01/30/2014

Maryland Heights Township Democratic Club hosted a panel to discuss the events occurring in regards to the Bridgeton Landfill Fire, the radioactive nuclear waste at the adjoining West Lake Landfill and Cold Water Creek’s Health Data that was recently released.

Prayer Vigil Dates: 02/12 & 02/26/2014 – 10 am

The Franciscan Sisters of Mary (Bridgeton) invite you to bundle up to join us in prayer tomorrow morning! We welcome Franciscan-hearted people, of all faiths, to come together for short prayer near the West Lake Landfill. The building protects us from most of the wind…

Documents seem to contradict current position on West Lake Landfill

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…

Generic Letter to the Elected Officials

Below is a Generic Letter to the Elected Officials that can be copied and pasted into an email.   Or if you would prefer to send the letter out thorough the postal service you can click on this Generic Letter to the Elected Officials and print the…

St. Louis Post Dispatch Editorial: Let the cleanup begin

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…