2021 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2021 17:50:09 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] FOMER SITES, RADIATION: "Concerns linger as completion date for Coldwater Creek [MO] cleanup pushed to 2038"
 
Concerns linger as completion date for Coldwater Creek cleanup pushed to 2038

By Jesse Bogan
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 
Decemberv20, 2021
 
FLORISSANT - Enoch Cole and his wife moved here from Kirkwood a few years ago because their hard-earned money went farther. They bought a nice, spacious house at the end of a cul-de-sac perched above Coldwater Creek.

…

The team told Cole they were doing “some testing.” They gave him a “Dear Neighbor” letter from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Louis District that was so specific it didn’t make sense. The letter said the sampling was part of the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program, or FUSRAP, “to further characterize Coldwater Creek and associated flood plain properties.”

After he read it, Cole went to his computer. He concluded it had something to do with World War II and an issue of contamination getting into the creek. He wondered what the results of the testing were and eventually forgot about it until a reporter recently knocked on the door.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/concerns-linger-as-completion-date-for-coldwater-creek-cleanup-pushed-to-2038/article_45ee5915-7eff-59d6-a378-7ab4a27d75d7.html

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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