EPA Gina McCarthy Wrong Yet Again

Terra Johnson Douglas-February 13 at 6:44pm  posted in West Lake Landfill.

Just Moms STL, non-profit group formed to unite & organize against a harmful Superfund radioactive waste site from the Manhattan Project in their Community

Terra Johnson Douglas wrote Greg Wingard in Washington State 

asking him to support our bill and contact his contact his Representative to support the bill. I also told him how 

Gina McCarthy refused to meet with the Moms.

This was his response.

"Not surprised on Gina McCarthy. My understanding is that prior to her being the Administer, she worked on issues related to radiation for the agency, and was the one involved in making the call to shut down monitoring radiation on the west coast of the United States, a few months into the Fukushima accident.

I wrote our Region X, EPA Administer Dennis McClearan to protest this decision and was told by regional staff that the amount of available dilution in the Pacific Ocean was so great that it would not be possible to measure any increase in radiation over the existing background. 

My response was that they were either ignoring, or refusing to consider the role of preferential pathways, including currents and materials such as plastic particulates that would tend to concentrate the radiation and keep it suspended in the water column rather than it falling out into the sediment (meaning it would tend to travel rather than settle). They disagreed.

Recent information from independent sampling, carried out by Woods Hole Institute researchers has shown that radiation off the coast of Washington has now increased three to four-fold over the previous background levels, with the fingerprint of isotopes demonstrating that Fukushima is the only possible source for the increase."

What on Earth is Going on at  West Lake Landfill?

When odors from the neighboring Bridgeton Landfill became so intense, residents began making calls. What they unearthed was shocking! They learned that the adjacent West Lake Landfill houses massive amounts of illegally dumped nuclear weapons waste from the Manhattan Project, the U.S. – the secret U.S. military program created in 1942 to develop the atomic bomb.

Kenaf Yield Tables Univ Tennessee

The 5 tables in this post on Kenaf  Production Yield are screenshots of this document

MOhemp Hazmat 5 Stage Treatment Train

Here is how MOhemp Hazmat 5 stage Phytoremediation process fits another scenario in the Treatment Train to remove the heavy metal toxins from the soil at St Louis Hazmat Sites.

This snippet of information from 

Phytoremediation for bioenergy: challenges and opportunities S.Gomes

Helena I. Gomes (2012) Phytoremediation for bioenergy: challenges and opportunities

 MOhemp Hazmat 5 stage process not only addresses the opportunities and threats.  It speeds up the phytoextraction process of Heavy Metals Toxic Removal.

Stage 1: Riparian Buffer
Stage 2: Organic Micro Fungi Stimulation and Habitat Creation
Stage 3: Solar Powered Electro-Horticulture 
Stage 4: Organic Tea Root Stimulation and Dust Control
Stage 5: Phytoremediation by Phytoextraction

All of which will provide a greater biomass resources that will offset the financial costs to implement the MOhemp Hazmat 5 Stage Phytoremediation green remediation treatment strategy.

Kenaf Riparian Water Filtration Westlake Landfill

Riparian Kenaf Phytoremediation Buffer Example for Low Slope Hillside

MOhemp Hazmat Kenaf Phytoremediation Diagram

http://blog.mohempenergy.org

Design by Scotty, MOhemp Energy

A riparian buffer is a vegetated area ...which help partially protect a stream from the impact of adjacent land uses. It plays a key role in increasing water quality in associated streams, rivers, and lakes, thus providing environmental benefits (Wiki)

The following hillside on the Westlake Landfill Nuclear Waste Dumpsite where water flowed into the city sewers is an example of where a riparian buffer could be utilized to protect the Nuclear Waste contaminants from entering the city water system or the Mississippi and Missouri River.

Hazardous Waste Escapes in Flood

THE BRIDGETON aka WESTLAKE LANDFILL HAVE FLOODED AND THE TOXINS ARE ESCAPING, A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF PLACES THAT NATURAL PHYTOREMEDIATION PROJECTS CAN BE USED IN WET AREAS.

West Lake story: An underground fire, radioactive waste, and governmental failure

West Lake story: An underground fire, radioactive waste, and governmental failure: On July 16, 1973, 28 years to the day after the first nuclear weapon was exploded at Alamogordo, New Mexico, a line of dump trucks containing the detritus from the uranium used to make plutonium for the test bomb showed up at the West Lake landfill in Bridgeton, Missouri. Assuming the trucks were loaded with clean fill, the landfill superintendent waved them through without charging a dumping fee.

Manhattan Project Nuclear Waste Shipping Container 

A truck driver said later that he and others used the black stuff in their home gardens.

Previously Undisclosed Radioactive Dump Site Location in the StLouis Region

By October several thousand shipments were illegally dumped at the landfill in north St Louis

Green had worked from 1946 until about 1958 for several small trucking companies that hauled materials for Mallinckrodt Chemical Works in north St. Louis. The company processed uranium for the federal government under contract to the Atomic Energy Commission.

Photo added by Scotty

Supporting Article: http://blog.mohempenergy.org/2016/01/manhattan-project-nuclear-waste.html


Back to the Article  West Lake story: An underground fire, radioactive waste, and governmental failure

  It’s not far-fetched to conclude that there are parallels between the West Lake waste problem—created and exacerbated by decades of negligence and denial by the US nuclear weapons program and the agencies responsible for protecting people from its harmful legacy—and the disaster in Flint, Michigan, where citizens have been poisoned by lead-laced drinking water, and their public officials have been slow to respond. In fact, on January 27, the editorial board of the St. Louis Post Dispatch explicitly pointed out those parallels, concluding that “too often, people without power and clout don’t count with government officials. A parallel situation exists here with Bridgeton’s West Lake landfill... After seeing what happened in Flint, it comes as no surprise that they doubt government’s will to find a permanent solution.”

Responsibility for the radioactive legacy in north St. Louis County rests squarely on the US government, because the problem there was born of production of the first nuclear weapons. At minimum, the first order of business should be for the Corps of Engineers to remove as much of the West Lake landfill wastes as possible and contain the rest, to protect nearby communities and the drinking water they draw from the Missouri River.

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CLU-IN Phytoremediation Risk Assessment

While taking the Health Assesment Webinar presented by CLU-IN today I was referred to Phytotechnology  Technical and Regulatory 

 Guidance and Decision Trees, Revised

I was pleasantly surprised to see the plan I have been working on meets the criteria.  Without knowing all the fancy words such as:  phytotechnologies that will both contain and remediate the soil and water toxins.

The MOhemp Hazmat crew is currently 

Testing and experimenting on and for numerous things that deal with removing heavy metals from the soil.  The basis for the experiment is Phytoremediation by Phytorextraction.

 The MOhemp Hazmat testing team consists of

1. David who has a proven way to increase plant growth through Electro-horticulture. [ Learn about nature's secrets for increasing yields, accelerating growth, and protecting against droughts and other calamities. Buy now to learn the history and science behind electroculture, uses & novel applications, and more! ] order the Electro-Horticulture book by David J. Wechsler https://leanpub.com/ElectricFertilizerBook
2.  Scotty, MOhemp Energy theory that: Electro-culture which is also called electro-horticulture  will draw more toxins to the roots of a Kenaf Plant that can then cycle the toxins from the soil by Phytoextraction.  

• By using the combined approach of phytoremediation. MOhemp Hazmat team believes we can speed up the toxic uptake of the heavy metal toxins. Read additional details
• Kenaf Phytoremediation Heavy Metal Experiment Planned in St Louis http://blog.mohempenergy.org/2016/01/kenaf-phytoremediation-heavy-metal.html

CLU-IN suggested this information,

 notice that my plans adhere to their

 guidenace minus the trees

Phytotechnology  Technical and Regulatory Guidance and Decision Trees

To enhance the phytoextraction capabilities, several strategies have been attempted. Lead can be made much more bioavailable with the addition of chelating agents such as ethylene diamine tetra-acetic acid (EDTA) to soils (Schnoor 1997). Similarly, a considerable body of information exists on the uptake of radionuclides into plants, including laboratory and field studies where radionuclides from nuclear weapons complexes or test sites have been transferred into plants. Specifically, the availability of uranium and radio-cesium 137 has been enhanced using citric acid and ammonium nitrate, respectively (Dodge and Francis 1997, Riesen and Bruner 1996). However, adding these enhancing agents also increases the inherent risks associated with the application since they can also mobilize target contaminants and other constituents deeper into the soil or into groundwater. This is a decision factor to consider when selecting this phytotechnology application as the site remedy (see Section 2.3). Furthermore, the timing of the application should be thoroughly designed, planned, and managed during implementation (see Section 2.4).  [Phytotechnology Technical and Regulatory Guidance and Decision 

Trees, Revised pg 40]

The applications of phytotechnologies that combine containment with remediation include covers that stabilize soils and phytoremediate contaminants, tree stands that create a hydraulic barrier while remediating impacted soil and groundwater, constructed wetland treatment systems, and riparian buffers.[Phytotechnology Technical and Regulatory Guidance and Decision 

Trees, Revised pg 36]