Legislation

LEGISLATION:  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 Sponsor:  Sen. Blunt, Roy [R-MO]Cosponsor:  Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO]Date:  November 19, 2015S.2306 Referred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public WorksGovTrack.us Senate Passes Blunt, McCaskill Bill to Help…

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EPA orders work to start on landfill barrier, 04/28/2016

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

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EPA orders more fire control measures at West Lake landfill, 04/28/2016

St. Louis Post-Dispatchby 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 actions Thursday but said they wouldn’t be the last in the…

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EPA Finds Radiation in West Lake Landfill Runoff, 05/26/2016

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 drainage ditch on the landfill property near St. Charles Rock…

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