Monday, May 13, 2013
With stir of a possible settlement, complaints of the landfill's odor grows and range from Hazelwood to as far as St. Charles.
The Missouri Coalition for the Environment and residents of Maryland Heights and Bridgeton gathered Monday morning to press officials for more information on the Bridgeton and West Lake landfills. With more construction scheduled to start at the site May 20 and the Bridgeton Landfill odor expected to increase, residents and the coalition want more action from state agencies. Ed Smith, Safe Energy Director for the coalition, showed that Republic Services, owner of the landfills, currently only offers to relocate residents in Spanish Village, Terrisan Reste Mobile Home and some of Carrolton Village Condominiums, which are within a one-mile radius. Smith and others said the “stink zone” is much greater than one mile. “If Republic Services’ …
Friday, March 15, 2013
Local and state organizations come together to get community members to rally around taking care of one of the Bridgeton landfills.
State and North County legislators turned out Friday for a call to action on Bridgeton's West Lake Landfill. The Missouri Coalition for the Environment, Missouri Jobs with Justice and Teamsters Local 618 banded together to put on a public briefing regarding the risks and hazards of the landfill. Ed Smith, safe energy director for the Missouri Coalition for the Environment, said a public meeting was needed when Republic Services, which owns the landfill, said everything was OK. “We’re all local, Republic is not,” Smith said following the session. “People are being fed misinformation (by Republic).” Bob Criss, director of the stable isotope laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis, and Peter Anderson, executive director for the …
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." …
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Recent rate increase proposals were developed with mediation of suit in mind, an MSD spokesperson says.
The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District Board of Trustees (MSD) has introduced a measure for a consent decree that would settle a 2007 federal and state lawsuit. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Missouri Coalition for the Environment and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) filed the civil action suit claiming the district violated the Clean Water Act. The suit alleges the district discharged untreated sewage from its collection system through combined sewer overflows and constructed sanitary sewer overflows. It also alleges the district was in violation of conditions established in the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits issued by the MDNR. The decree is part of mediation efforts and …
