[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, FORMER SITES: "Coldwater Creek [MO] to finally have warning signs after decades of nuclear contamination"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Coldwater Creek to finally have warning signs after decades of nuclear contamination

By  Allison Kite
Missouri Independent
January 9, 2024
 
More than 70 years after workers first realized barrels of radioactive waste risked contaminating Coldwater Creek, the federal government has started work to put up signs warning residents.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said in a statement Monday that it was working with the Environmental Protection Agency to add signs along the creek to help it monitor areas “that may pose a risk if disturbed.”

Coldwater Creek has been contaminated for decades with radioactive waste left over from the World War II-era effort to build an atomic bomb. But though the creek winds through some of St. Louis’ busiest suburbs and past public parks and schools, the federal government had resisted calls to post signs warning visitors of the contamination.

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For the entire story, see
https://www.komu.com/news/state/coldwater-creek-to-finally-have-warning-signs-after-decades-of-nuclear-contamination/article_9e101e08-613c-5bc0-b8f2-2cdbdf164e97.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
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
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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