West Lake Landfill Excavation Update – Final Draft
Read MoreA silenced community is silenced NO MORE!! With a much anticipated face to face meeting with the EPA, 03/06/2018
STL Rad Waste Action Team S.W.A.T.by Jesse Koenig EPA Public Comment Period for Proposed Removal MeetingDistrict 9 Machinists Hall; Bridgeton, MissouriMarch 6, 2018
Read MorePublic weighs in on West Lake proposal, overwhelmingly wants more thorough cleanup, 03/07/2018
St. Louis Post-Dispatchby Bryce Gray BRIDGETON • Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency issued a long-awaited proposal to partially remove the radioactive contamination at the West Lake Landfill Superfund site here, while placing a protective cap over material left behind. READ MORE
Read MoreEPA MEETING FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS ON WEST LAKE LANDFILL PROPOSED REMEDY, 03/06/2018
Just Moms STL EPA hosted a Public Meeting to formally present the Proposed Remedy that was announced on Feb 1, 2018, for the clean up of West Lake Landfill and the comment period ends at Midnight, April 23rd. Our Community showed up, it was Standing room only! There was a list of 97 speakers who…
Read MoreSt Louis plagued by illness from #thorium and uranium radioactive contamination, 07/31/2015
Nuclear Information St. Louis Plagued by Illness from #Thorium and Uranium Radioactive Contamination This week, internationally recognized physician Dr. Helen Caldicott reviewed documents and reports concerning the West Lake landfill. She stated in no uncertain terms that the health records and data clearly show that contaminants have been causing cancers in the affected region at elevated…
Read MoreResidents Frustrated With Planned Barrier Between Fire, Nuclear Waste Dump In St. Louis, 01/09/2016
International Business Timesby Adam Lidgett While the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to go ahead with the building of a firebreak between an underground fire and a nuclear-waste site in suburban St. Louis, area residents indicated they are frustrated by the situation, Al Jazeera reported Saturday. A number of them said the plan to construct the wall…
Read MoreMore radioactivity turns up near St. Louis-area illegal nuclear waste dump landfill, 01/28/2016
The Japan TimesAP BRIDGETON, MISSOURI – A Missouri agency has found more off-site radiation contamination near a St. Louis-area landfill where nuclear waste was illegally dumped four decades ago. KMOX-AM (cbsloc.al/1PjM5iW ) reports that the Missouri Department of Natural Resources said gamma radiation was found in the lower range in most samples. But some areas near…
Read MoreOwner of burning, reeking Missouri landfill nearing Cold War nuclear waste agrees to new EPA steps, 04/29/216
The Japan TimesAP 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 evidence the nagging fire has greatly spread, regional EPA chief Mark…
Read MoreFire burns through the night at Republic Service’s Sugar Creek landfill, 01/28/2016
The Kansas City Starby Robert A. Cronkleton A fire at the Courtney Ridge Recycling and Disposal Facility in Sugar Creek burned through the night and into Thursday. A passer-by noticed the fire at the landfill at 1701 N. Missouri 291 shortly before 11 p.m. and called 911. When Sugar Creek police and fire personnel responded,…
Read MoreSenate Passes Blunt, McCaskill Bill to Help West Lake Families, 02/02/2016
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Roy Blunt (Mo.) and Claire McCaskill (Mo.) today applauded Senate passage of their bill, S. 2306, to transfer remediation authority over the West Lake landfill from the Environmental Protection Agency to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, putting the site in the Corps’ Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP). Missouri Representatives…
Read MoreToday, The Senate Passed Bill S.2306, 02/02/2016
S.2306 – A bill to require the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to undertake remediation oversight of the West Lake Landfill located in Bridgeton, Missouri. http://democrats.senate.gov/2016/02/02/wrap-up-for-tuesday-february-2-2016/#.VrGnm7JrhaR
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