[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, FORMER SITES: Bridgeton landfill, Missouri

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA weighs cleanup of nuclear waste at Bridgeton landfill

BY JEFFREY TOMICH
St. Louis Dispatch (MO)
March 14, 2012

BRIDGETON - Almost four years after federal regulators approved a  
plan to cover Cold War-era nuclear waste at a Bridgeton landfill,  
they’re weighing much more extensive clean-up options that involve  
excavating tons of contaminated soil.

The Environmental Protection Agency, which is tasked with overseeing  
the cleanup of the West Lake Landfill, said it’s studying a 1,400- 
page supplemental study of two cleanup alternatives.

...

They have long sought for responsibility of the West Lake site to be  
transferred to the Army Corps of Engineers under a federal program  
begun in the mid-1970s to cleanup sites tied to the government’s  
atomic energy and weapons program.


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/as-pressure-mounts-epa-mulls- 
west-lake-landfill-cleanup/ 
article_452f82ac-6d57-11e1-9300-0019bb30f31a.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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