Coldwater Creek

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is drilling through basement floors in the Cades Cove subdivision of Florissant to determine whether there is radioactive contamination under residents’ homes.

The Missouri House Conservation and Natural Resources Committee on Monday heard testimony on a bill that would transfer $300,000 to a radioactive waste investigations fund created six years ago.

At a tense meeting Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency launched a new effort to get community input on the continuing cleanup of nuclear waste in St. Louis County.

Expansion of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act could have helped with care for people suffering after living near contaminated waterways and sites across Missouri.

Nuclear waste stored outside St. Louis was found to pose a risk to nearby Coldwater Creek as early as 1949. The contaminated creek will finally have warning signs almost 75 years later.

U.S. Rep. Cori Bush, D-St. Louis County, requested the U.S. Government Accountability Office evaluate the cleanup of the St. Louis County site contaminated by radioactive waste from the Manhattan Project.

The St. Ann Democrat has spent decades seeking a governmental response to radioactive waste contamination stemming from the Manhattan Project throughout the St. Louis region.

House Minority Leader Crystal Quade asked Gov. Mike Parson to call a special session on nuclear waste in the St. Louis area but faced criticism from grassroots activists.

Private companies and the federal government for decades failed to take actions to protect St. Louis residents from nuclear waste, an investigation by The Independent, MuckRock and The Associated Press found.

Nuclear contamination in the St. Louis region dates back to the 1940s. Documents show leaders of Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, which processed uranium in St. Louis, knew of the contamination risks in 1949.