Thursday, May 9, 2013
West Lake Landfill is an Environmental Protection Agency Superfund Site. Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal is seeking to have it transferred to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. A hearing was held Wednesday morning to discuss the matter.
Local residents headed to Jefferson City, Wednesday, to testfy before a Senate committee on West Lake Landfill. The hearing is about a resolution Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal's urgeing the U.S. Congress to transfer authority for the remediation of the West Lake Landfill radioactive wastes from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (USACE) Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP). View the bill introduction here. On the West Lake Landfill Facebook group, residents that testified, along with supporters that traveled to Jefferson City, expressed excitement about it. "Got back from Jefferson City less than an hour ago (from) the hearing for West Lake Landfill and it went very well," Julie…
Friday, April 26, 2013
A MO Department of Health and Senior Services employee admits her department does not have the means to execute a true and effective survey to determine a NoCo cancer cluster.
The James J. Eagan Community Center played host to a room of people who said they aren't giving up or backing down, Thursday night. "The federal government has poisoned us and it's their responsibility to take care of us," Kim Thone Visintine, who grew up in the area, said. She along with other North County residents, past and current, filled the gymnasium to listen to governmental agencies update remediation and other efforts related to radioactive waste dumped in the area and spread through Coldwater Creek, as well as groundwater. Some of those in attendance no longer live in the area. Visintine drove from Detroit, Mich., to be at the meeting. The defining moment of the meeting was when Cherri Bysinger spoke. Bysinger is with the …
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Residents will learn about remediation efforts related to Coldwater Creek, and all of the areas in and near Hazelwood that comprise the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program.
If you are looking to be updated on what is going on with remediation efforts at areas of North County contaminated with nuclear and radioactive wastes, you'll want to be at the James J. Eagan Community Center Thursday night. The St. Louis Oversight Committee will host its semi-annual meeting which allows residents in the area to speak face-to-face with people involved with the cleanup process at areas including in Hazelwood, with Coldwater Creek, as well as at and around Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. Who: St. Louis Oversight Committee When: Thursday, April 25, 2013 at 7 p.m. Where: James J. Eagan Community Center, located at 1 James J. Eagan Drive in Florissant (lower level) What are these meetings? According to the U.S. Army …
Thursday, March 28, 2013
The meeting scheduled for April 4 at James J. Eagan Community Center in Florissant is canceled.
4-3-12 Update: The meeting scheduled for April 4 at James J. Eagan Community Center in Florissant is canceled. ---------------- The legal teams working three lawsuits regarding Coldwater Creek contamination and the health impacts on North County residents, will be hosting two town hall-style meetings next week. The meetings are an effort to inform the public on the proceedings, and to let those who feel living, playing or working near the creek negatively impacted their helath have options. The meetings are slated for Wednesday and Thursday in Hazelwood and Florissant, respectively. Each is a public meeting and is open to all residents. They will take place at the same time on both days, 6 p.m. Meeting locations are as follows: …
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Saturday, March 9, 2013
Stay up-to-date when it comes to news about the contamination and lawsuit affecting North St. Louis County residents, past and current..
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Stay up-to-date when it comes to news about the contamination and lawsuit affecting North St. Louis County residents, past and current..
Three lawsuits allege exposure to radioactive waste the Mallinckrodt chemical company produced is the reason for the health issues. One lawsuit filed in April 2012 includes a group of 16 people from Hazelwood, Florissant, Spanish Lake and St. Ann. According to the lawsuit, nuclear waste was dumped near Lambert Saint Louis International Airport and contaminated Coldwater Creek starting in the 1940s through the 1950s. The area is considered an Environmental Protection Agency Superfund site. Documents express the residents report contracting various breast, testicular, brain and pancreatic cancers, Crohn's disease and other autoimmune disorders. The first suit was filed in February 2012 when North County residents had similar allegations of …
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
The organization said it is disgruntled with what it feels is a lack of public engagement on progress of cleanup of the site.
The Missouri Coalition for the Environment is holding a public meeting on the West Lake Landfill Superfund site, which is under the jurisdiction of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The Army Corps of Engineers manages the cleanup of the Coldwater Creek Nuclear Contamination sites near Lambert-St. Louis International Airport and the outskirts of the City of Hazelwood. Ed Smith, safe energy director at Missouri Coalition for the Environment, said the organization is holding the meeting in response to the EPA’s "lack of meaningful public engagement on our region’s most risky radioactive waste dump site which lies in the floodplain of the Missouri River, upstream from drinking water intakes for north St. Louis County and the City." …
Friday, April 13, 2012
Both lawsuits include Hazelwood residents along with those from neighboring communities who feel their cancers and illnesses are a byproduct of living near the nuclear waste buried near Coldwater Creek.
North St. Louis County residents have filed a second lawsuit alleging that nuclear waste in Coldwater Creek, which is partially contained in the City of Hazelwood has caused their various illnesses including cancer, and for some death. About the Lawsuits Both lawsuits allege exposure to radioactive waste the Mallinckrodt chemical company produced, is the reason for the health issues. The second lawsuit includes a group of 16 people from Hazelwood, Florissant, Spanish Lake and St. Ann. According to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court on Tuesday, nuclear waste was dumped near Lambert Saint Louis International Airport and contaminated Coldwater Creek starting in the 1940s through the 1950s. The area is considered an Environmental …
According to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court on Tuesday, nuclear waste was buried near Coldwater Creek starting in the 1940s through the 1950s. Residents report contracting various cancers autoimmune disorders.
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Monday, March 26, 2012
Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal's column.
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Monday, March 26, 2012
It takes an awful lot to anger me. For the last month I have been learning about radioactive waste in North St. Louis County. My friend and environmental stalwart, Kay Drey, told me about this issue a couple of years ago but I did not fully understand the scope of environmental and health ramifications of radioactive waste like I do today. Last week I toured three areas in my new senate district that have radioactive waste – specifically 43,000 tons of radioactive waste (uranium) that was illegally dumped into an unlined municipal dump. I have also discovered that one of the American Water intake sites — that is responsible for supplying drinking water for all North St. Louis County residents — is only eight river miles downstream. About …
Candace Jarrett
11:11 pm on Saturday, April 27, 2013
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