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From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 21:21:17 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, FORMER SITES: "EPA maps extent of West Lake [MO] radioactive contamination"
 
EPA maps extent of West Lake radioactive contamination
	
By Jacob Barker 
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)
March 24, 2016

After almost a year of study, the Environmental Protection Agency says it believes it has completely mapped the extent of radioactive contamination at the West Lake Landfill.

The findings come as the agency works to finalize plans for a barrierseparating the burning Bridgeton Landfill from the adjacent West Lake Landfill, which was contaminated in the 1970s with uranium processing waste dating to the Manhattan Project.

Some of the material, mostly uranium decay products, was about 600 feet further south than prior EPA investigations had determined. That makes the distance between the fire and the radioactive waste only half as much as the agency’s prior studies indicated.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/epa-maps-extent-of-west-lake-radioactive-contamination/article_e419ee8c-9ad9-5c49-9aca-3e27c1179790.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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