[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, FORMER SITES: "Feds want to test for nuclear waste near Coldwater Creek at St. Louis County [MO] park"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Feds want to test for nuclear waste near Coldwater Creek at St. Louis County park

By Kelsey Landis
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)
March 20, 2023

ST. LOUIS COUNTY — The federal government wants to test water and soil at a popular hiking spot in north St. Louis County for possible contamination from nuclear radiation.

The hiking trails at Fort Belle Fontaine Park, owned by St. Louis County, run along Coldwater Creek. The creek and its watershed were contaminated by toxic waste from the development of atomic weapons in the 1940s and ’50s — and today park visitors often explore and play in the creek bed.

“The mere fact that they have to go and look for radioactive waste and that I’ve seen kids and people in that creek makes me sick,” said Dawn Chapman, co-founder of Just Moms STL, which advocates for Coldwater Creek cleanup and awareness. “It’s a straight-up F for failure for not communicating.”

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For the entire article, see
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/feds-want-to-test-for-nuclear-waste-near-coldwater-creek-at-st-louis-county-park/article_67c0ac58-a82f-575b-9f11-fbdbd0d56b05.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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