[Military Environmental Forum] RADIATION, FORMER SITES: "Army Corps wraps up demo of homes built on top of radioactive contamination near Coldwater Creek, " Florissant, MO

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@sonic.net>]

Army Corps wraps up demo of homes built on top of radioactive contamination near Coldwater Creek

By Kate Grumke
St. Louis Public Radio (MO)
September 16, 2026 

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Wednesday it had completed a remediation project that involved demolishing homes near Coldwater Creek in Florissant.

The homes in the Cades Cove subdivision were built on top of radioactive contamination from World War II-era efforts to build an atomic energy program.

As part of the $15 million remediation effort, the Army Corps demolished six houses and worked on two other properties.

The Army Corps says it removed thousands of cubic yards of contaminated soil in the process and backfilled the lots.


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For the entire story, see
https://www.stlpr.org/news-briefs/2026-09-16/army-corps-demo-homes-radioactive-contamination-coldwater-creek

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Lenny Siegel
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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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