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Monday, December 28, 2015

StLouis Year in review: 2015 local news headlines : News

Year in review: 2015 local news headlines : News





LANDFILL SMOLDERS, TENSION GROWs

In 1973, a hauler dumped radioactive waste in a landfill in Bridgeton. Five years ago, an underground fire was discovered in a neighboring waste dump. Keeping fire and nuclear waste separate is a goal everyone agrees upon.
Just how to do that is a question that lingers with the foul odor. Republic Services of Phoenix, which bought the landfills in 2008, prefers capping the smoldering Bridgeton Landfill and installing a firebreak barrier to West Lake Landfill, which holds low-level waste from work in St. Louis on America’s first nuclear bombs. Activists and neighbors want the material hauled away, a much more expensive proposition.
In September, Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster, the likely Democratic nominee for governor next year, reported the fire getting closer. That contradicted Republic, against which Koster has a lawsuit. KMOX radio disclosed a St. Louis County evacuation plan for the area, and four area school districts sent letters to parents outlining emergency plans.
More than 500 people showed up at a community meeting. “I’m 16 and I’m already worried about my future,” said a sophomore from Pattonville High School, which is located 2 miles away. A brush-fire call at West Lake Landfill added to tension.
Koster later called it a “relief” that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found the situation poses no exposure risk. The EPA plans to choose a solution in 2016.

Scotty Writes: 
Will the EPA and those in charge of the situation acknowledge their own Phytoremediation studies 
that Phytoremediation by Phytoextraction is  not only a cost saving alternative but a logical solution as it can be financed by the plants grown? see>




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