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….
KSDK.com by Lisa Zeigman ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. (KSDK) – For more than 30 years, a former worker has kept a secret. It is a secret he says is buried beneath the landfill and one that has haunted him for decades. But because of all the recent…
Missouri Department of Natural Resources Solid Waste Management Program – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Bridgeton Sanitary Landfill
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…
Sierra Club.org by Ginger Harris While we’re discussing what shouldn’t be in a floodplain, here’s something else that shouldn’t be there: illegally dumped radioactive waste from Mallinckrodt’s processing of extremely “hot” Belgian Congo uranium for the US’s first atomic bomb. This radioactive waste is sitting behind…
Submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources by Kay Drey Comments RE the Proposed Plan for the West Lake Landfill Radioactive Wastes
Herst & Associates for Allied Waste Industries June 2006 Feasibility Study Report for Allied Waste Industries by Herst & Associates
State of Missouri Department of Natural Resources September 14, 2005 http://www.stlradwastelegacy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/2005-DNR-soil-smples.pdf
Dames & Moore prepared for Ford Financial Services Group October 24, 1991 Phase III Radiological Site Assessment, Earth City Industrial Park
Missouri Department of Health Arthur Busch, Stephen L. Meek, Dan Harper, Burt J. Cooper October 4, 1991 Preliminary Health Assessment, West Lake Landfill
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,…
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission June 1988 Radioactive Material in the West Lake Landfill
Missouri Department of Natural Resources Fiscal Year 1987 Confirmed Abandoned or Uncontrolled Hazardous Waste Disposal Sites in Missouri
University of Missouri – Columbia College of Engineering by Shankha K. Banerji, William H. Miller, John T. O’Connor, Leslie S. Uhazy November 1984 Engineering Evaluation of Options for Disposition of Radioactively Contaminated Residues in West Lake Landfill
