The Examiner by Byron DeLear In a shocking revelation concerning the ongoing saga of the radioactive West Lake Landfill, yesterday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a report it had suppressed for more than three years. In it, the National Remedy Review Board (NRRB), a peer-review group…
St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Jacob Barker Removing the hottest radioactive waste within the West Lake Landfill is feasible and could reduce long-term risks from the Bridgeton-area landfill, an internal Environmental Protection Agency report says. The report, released by the agency voluntarily Wednesday, bolsters the arguments…
CBS – St. Louis ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – The long smoldering problem of the Westlake Landfill may be headed for a hearing soon in the U.S. House. Missouri Congressman Lacy Clay is backing a plan to transfer the cleanup duties from the EPA to the Army…
The Vice by Amy Martyn What do you do when there’s 10,000 barrels of illegally dumped uranium two miles away from your home and the government tells you not to worry about it? Dawn Chapman and her family are stuck in an absurd and depressing…
STL Reporter Low Standards and Ethical Lapses Are Still the Rule More Than a Century After Muckraker Lincoln Steffens Exposed St. Louis’ Politically Corrupt Environment. CITY COUNCIL – BRIDGETON CITY COUNCIL ON MAY 21, 2014 http://bridgetonmo.swagit.com/play/05232014-544 To understand how St. Louis County’s longstanding radioactive waste…
STL Reporter Low Standards and Ethical Lapses Are Still the Rule More Than a Century After Muckraker Lincoln Steffens Exposed St. Louis’ Politically Corrupt Environment. http://bridgetonmo.swagit.com/play/05232014-544 To understand how St. Louis County’s longstanding radioactive waste problem has been covered up, you need knowledge of the…
KSDK by Jason Aubry Radioactive soil has been found outside the fence of the Westlake Landfill along the edge of its property. http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/radioactive-material-found-in-drainage-ditch-1/218151281
CBS St. Louis BRIDGETON, Mo. (KMOX) – There was Facebook video in December showing a torrent of rain running off the West Lake Landfill during flash flooding. Now the EPA has done some testing on the runoff. The EPA found radiation in the dirt near a…
EPA West Lake Update In January, the Potentially Responsible Par- ties (PRPs) collected three sediment samples at the West Lake Landfill as part of additional characterization work for Area 1 and Area 2. EPA required two additional sediment samples to be collected in March in…
St. Louis Public Radio by Durrie Bouscaren The temporary waste disposal site near Lambert Airport. After World War II, federal contractors stored drums of residue, barium sulfate cake and contaminated scrap created as Mallinckrodt refined uranium for the atomic bombs. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS Three…
St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Jacob Barker Activists pushing for the removal of radioactive contamination in the West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton say they have filed a formal complaint with the United Nations Human Rights Commission. Dawn Chapman and Karen Nickel, founders of JustMoms STL, and…
KSDK by Art Holliday The meeting was only supposed to be 45 minutes, but was nearly twice as long. http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/neighbors-take-landfill-concerns-to-the-un/167931750
St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Jacob Barker The owner of the Bridgeton Landfill will install more cooling loops and temperature monitors and expand a plastic cover over the Bridgeton Landfill in an effort to keep an underground fire from reaching radioactive waste. Federal authorities announced the…
The Japan Times AP KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI – The owner of a burning suburban St. Louis landfill near buried radioactive waste has agreed to new measures meant to slow and help monitor the underground blaze, a U.S. Environmental Agency administrator said Thursday. While stressing there’s no…
The Wall Street Journal by John R. Emshwiller About a mile from homes in Missouri’s St. Louis County lies a radioactive hot spot with contamination levels hundreds of times above federal safety guidelines. But there are no plans to clean it up. That is because the location, tainted with waste from atomic-weapons…
KSDK.com The E.P.A. is ordering Republic Services to begin work on a barrier that will ensure an underground fire at the Bridgeton Landfill never reaches nuclear waste buried at the West Lake Landfill. http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/epa-orders-work-to-start-on-landfill-barrier/158404256
Environmental Protection Agency April 28, 2016 EPA Reaches Agreement with Bridgton Landfill for Installation of Components of Isolation Barrier System West Lake Update, April 28, 2016
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Jacob Barker A federal judge is sending Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster’s environmental lawsuit against the owner of the Bridgeton Landfill back to St. Louis County Circuit Court. In October, Republic Services, the owner of the burning Bridgeton Landfill and the adjacent…
