[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, FORMER SITES: "Work at Jana Elementary site to ramp up before Coldwater Creek contamination cleanup begins, " Florissant, MO

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Work at Jana Elementary site to ramp up before Coldwater Creek contamination cleanup begins

by Bryce Gray
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)
May 5, 2023

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will soon increase its activity on the property of the shuttered Jana Elementary School in Florissant, where radioactivity with links to the nation’s nuclear weapons program was detected last year. 

The Corps announced Friday that work will ramp up “in the next few weeks” as it prepares to clean up the banks of Coldwater Creek, adjacent to the school.

The work was planned prior to recently heightened questions about the site’s safety, raised after a private testing firm last year found high levels of radioactivity in the building and around its playground.

The radioactive waste affecting the Coldwater Creek watershed traces its origins to the World War II era, when Mallinckrodt Chemical processed uranium in the 1940s and ’50s for the country’s earliest atomic weapons. The resulting waste was first stored at the airport, near the creek, and later moved to an industrial area on Latty Avenue, which also sits along the waterway.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/work-at-jana-elementary-site-to-ramp-up-before-coldwater-creek-contamination-cleanup-begins/article_67b50770-eb6d-11ed-b76f-ab291c23d29d.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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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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