[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, FORMER SITES: "Army Corps finds more radioactive contamination on properties near Coldwater Creek" (MO)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army Corps finds more radioactive contamination on properties near Coldwater Creek


By Jacob Barker
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)
December 07, 2015 

Seven more private properties near Coldwater Creek may need cleanups after recent testing indicated the presence of radiological contamination.

It’s the latest discovery by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as it tests for radioactive contamination along Coldwater Creek. This summer, the corps said some residential yards in Hazelwood were contaminated, the first time in 17 years of cleaning up the mess from the nation’s early nuclear weapons program that the corps found contamination on residential property.

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For the entire artticle, see
http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/army-corps-finds-more-radioactive-contamination-on-properties-near-coldwater/article_b87e9209-c922-56bb-9230-cad422d01042.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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