Radioactive Waste

This radiation warning sign is one of many posted on the chain link fence surrounding part of the West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton, Mo.

Radioactive materials found in West Lake runoff area

Eli Chen

Radioactive material has been discovered in a drainage area located in the northwest portion of the West Lake Landfill.The federal Environmental…

A worker for the Missouri Department of Natural Resources collects a soil sample as part of testing for radioactive contamination around West Lake Landfill.

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EPA to clean radioactive contamination found on private property next to West Lake Landfill

Updated at 2:45 p.m. on Saturday, April 2, with information from the EPA: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will clean up radioactive contamination…

This photo of Coldwater Creek flooding was taken from the Dunn Road bridge on Monday.

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Army Corps to Coldwater Creek residents: One park clean, more work to come

A north St. Louis County park is now clean of radioactive material from the nearby contaminated Coldwater Creek, now that remediation by the Army Corps of…

A cautionary sign at a fence around the West Lake Landfill Superfund site, which contains World War II-era nuclear waste.

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EPA to build a physical firebreak at the West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton

After two years of delay, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on Thursday that it will move ahead with plans to build a firebreak at a…

Federal environmental health scientist Erin Evans speaks to area residents at an open house about Coldwater Creek on Wednesday.

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Were you exposed to radioactive waste along Coldwater Creek? A federal health agency wants to know

Updated 5:00 p.m., Dec. 3 with information on the county study - Federal scientists were in St. Louis County on Wednesday to talk with area residents…

Using an online survey, the Coldwater Creek Facebook group has been collecting information on illnesses in the communities around the creek. Close to 2,000 cases of cancer have been reported.

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Federal health agency to help study risks from radioactive creek in north St. Louis County

St. Louis County is teaming up with federal scientists to assess health risks from radioactive contamination in and around Coldwater Creek in north St.…

An underground fire has been smoldering in the Bridgeton Landfill for five years, about 1,000 feet away from tons of nuclear waste in the adjacent West Lake Landfill.

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National update: Conflicts over risks of fire, nuclear waste, stoke fears of St. Louis Co. landfills

St. Louis Public Radio has been following developments at a landfill complex in St. Louis County, where for five years an underground fire has been…

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Confused about Bridgeton, West Lake landfills? Here's what you should know

Updated at 5 p.m., Oct. 20 with new information -- St. Louis Public Radio is updating this FAQ to describe what we know — and don't know — about the…

Community activist Dawn Chapman speaks to an overflow crowd at the John Calvin Presbyterian Church about problems at the West Lake and Bridgeton landfills.

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Awareness, confusion increase over situation at St. Louis County landfills

Updated 1:00 a.m. after the landfill meeting - Hundreds of area residents jammed into the John Calvin Presbyterian Church in Bridgeton Thursday night for…

Since this map was created, EPA contractors have detected more radioactive waste than what is shown in pink, including some along the southern edge of OU-1 in what is called the "muffin top" of the north quarry of the Bridgeton Landfill.

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Energy Department denies request for Army Corps to take over West Lake cleanup — for now

Updated 1:15 p.m. and 3:15 p.m., Sept. 18 with U.S. Department of Energy response and comment from Sen. McCaskill's office - The U.S. Department of Energy…