[CPEO-MEF] St. Louis Airport (atomic waste) Site (MO)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Corps says cleanup complete of contaminated site near airport

Associated Press
Rolla Daily News (MO)
My 23, 2007

ST. LOUIS (AP) - After decades of cleanup, a 22-acre site near Lambert 
Airport where atomic waste was once dumped is now free of contamination, 
the Army Corps of Engineers said Tuesday.

A formal ceremony on May 30 will mark the end of the cleanup project. 
With the work finished, the corps said the once-contaminated area known 
as the St. Louis Airport Site, or SLAPS, is now safe for future 
development. The land sits just a few hundred feet off the end of one of 
Lambert’s runways.

The Mallinckrodt company of St. Louis began processing enriched uranium 
for use in atomic weapons in the 1940s, work that continued through 
1957. The radioactive residue was dumped at the SLAPS site. Some of it 
was buried, but much of it was strewn haphazardly, said Maj. Jason 
Taliaferro, site manager for the corps.
...

For the entire article, see
http://www.therolladailynews.com/articles/2007/05/23/state_news/state07.txt


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Lenny Siegel
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