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.

Manhattan Project Nuclear Waste Shipping Container and Dump Site

I received an interesting request from a fellow StLouis neighbor.  Who asked me to run down information about this old 1940s shipping container that his Father saved from his time while working for Malicrodt hauling the dirt that contained the nuclear waste. 

He mentioned Niagra Falls (this set off alarm bells in my head-Love Canal) so I did a quick google search and found some very interesting information.  I was shocked to learn that: 37 million gallons of nuclear waste that was secretly dumped into drinking wells as reported by RALPH BLUMENTHAL of the New York Times

• The Army and a defense contractor dumped more than 37 million gallons of radioactive caustic wastes from the World War II atomic bomb project in shallow wells at Tonawanda, N.Y., near Buffalo, between 1944 and 1946, a New York State toxic waste task force reported yesterday.
• The disposal method was specifically chosen, the panel said, to hide the source of the contamination. The report, by the New York State Assembly Task Force on Toxic Substances, also offered new data to dispute an earlier Army denial of involvement in dumping at Love Canal in Niagara Falls, N.Y.

I'm not blind and I now can see the source for the 37 million gallons of radioactive waste was generated by the St Louis Involvement in the Manhattan Project.

Is this stain spilled nuclear waste on the shipping container?  

This has to be the reason his Father keep the shipping container as a souvenir and more proof of how deep the Rabbit Hole of the Nuclear Industry really goes.

   

I'm honestly worried for the safety and health of this Vietnam Veteran when I saw the stain on the shipping container.  Is this stain spilled nuclear waste on the shipping container?  

We had many conversations over the phone and I was taking mental notes as well as looking up previously undisclosed nuclear waste dump sites that his Father mentioned.

One of which could be the image below, that is located in a Region of St Louis.

Previously Undisclosed Radioactive Dump Site Location in the StLouis Region

MOhemp Energy Hazmat Crew will be visiting this site and many more that this Viet Nam Veteran believes are in the StLouis area.

Wanted StLouis Grad Student Paper Study

On the advice of a Florida Hemp Business that I have been in contact with about the remediation of the nuclear waste at the Bridgeton Landfill that is causing adverse health issues to the people living and working in the area.

UPdate: Fluke Personal and Field Radiation Testing System 12/10/2015 Added to the Hemp for Soil Remediation of Nuclear Waste + sustainable insulation see below.

It was suggested to find a St Louis Grad Student that would take on this enormous task of: writing a paper and joining the study on the way using Phytoremediation to rid the affected areas of the Manhattan Projects Nuclear Waste.

I am sure some graduate student would love to do that project.

Here are 2 email replies I've received recently and what has prompted me to send this request to the World.

I've been following whats going on a believe I have a possible solution to removing the radiation.  I have contacted a few of the greater minds who have been using Hemp for many things and have been getting a little feedback here are 2 of the latest emails.

The first reply:

• As it grows, hemp absorbs heavy metals including radioactive ones and pushes them into its leaves.  If you run a harvester over the plant tops, you can collect the leaves and sequester them.  You will have a large volume of material which must be dried to reduce the volume.  Then it must be bagged/baled for disposal.  I recommend a metal smelter for that.  For this work, the hemp need not grow longer than 75 days and you might get two crops a year.  Winter hemp has been done, but it is dormant in the winter.  Hard freeze kills hemp.
  Any coal-fired power plant produces radioactive fly-ash so it may be possible to send material there.  Fly-ash containment ponds are radioactive, probably no more so than your leaves.
  
  Hemp is being used in this way at Chernobyl to remove radioactive Cesium from the topsoil.  Fukushima is said to be studying the method for their solution too.  Notice that both of these are dealing with surface pollution, not buried pollution.  The method could remove any toxins or heavy metals.
  
  Hemp roots go down 2 feet, sometimes as much as 8 feet.  Below that level, I doubt the method would help.  You would have to study the root depth in your cultivar and soils.
  
  Paul Stamets is a noted mycobiologist (studies mushrooms).  His book, “Mycelium Running” available on Amazon describes in chapter 7 “Mycoremediation” how mushrooms do much the same thing so you might combine the two methods.  Use hemp to draw it up and use mushrooms to consolidate it from the dried leaf material.
  
  Paul’s book also describes Mycofiltration in Chapter 5 where he cleaned up a stream runoff, but that was manure.
  
  It depends on  how deep your material is, but you could concentrate on some water run-off from the land-fill or leachate pumped to a bed of hemp core bedding and mushrooms.
  
  

  I am sure some graduate student would love to do that project.

  
  The Federal Farm Bill of 2014 only allows “research farming” of hemp, but this is clearly a research project of many years’ duration.  I suggest you work with your department of agriculture and its research stations.  Sounds like the feds should pay for it anyway.
  
  This BTW, is a serious problem at Federal labs at Hanford, Oak Ridge and South Carolina so you might find some help there.
  
  Good luck in your efforts.

• The stalks might not be very contaminated and might be suitable for animal bedding or hempcrete so you might get something to pay for the work.  It must be studied to be sure.

The second email reply

• Thank you for reaching out. You are definitely on the right path as hemp has so many benefits. Growing Industrial hemp does help purify the earth it’s grown in. 

#Ferguson #BridgetonLandfill #UnaccreditedSchools #WestlakeLandfill#NuclearWaste #Uranium #Methane #ColdWaterCreek 

#ManhattanProject   #Bridgeton   #NuclearWaste   #EPA   #USARMY   #POTUS  #GinaMcCarthy 

 UPdate 12/10/2015 On the advice of an employee of Cleantech Open it was suggested that I enter the concept, idea, and process of removing the toxins from the soil with Phytoremediation.  

As of today I have the project entered into 2 Scientific Crowd Funding programs 

While promoting the Idea Scale submission of Hemp for Soil Remediation of Nuclear Waste + sustainable insulation I was contacted via a Google Plus post and it was suggested that I should also submit the information to the CleanTech Open that boasts -who finds, funds, the most innovative cleantech startups on the Planet.

If you are interested in learning more about the people and organization who are directly involved in bringing new technologies on the market that will assist in helping the planet and people as a whole in the fight against climate change.   

I have 4 verbal committments that support the project and havfe been in contact with Fluke Radiation testing meters for personal safety as well as for widespread field testing.

Here is a link to a few of the Radiation Testers from Fluke 

RaySafe i2 personal dosimeter staff monitoring system

- See more at: http://www.flukebiomedical.com/Biomedical/usen/radiation-safety/Personal-Dosimetry/RaySafe-i2-personal-radiation-dosimeter-system.htm?PID=79051#sthash.Shf3fkQ7.dpuf

Overview Features Specifications Models and Accessories Knowledge and Information RaySafe i2 personal dosimeter staff monitoring system RaySafe i2 is an active personal dosimetry system that gives real-time insight about personal radiation exposure, as well as access to time stamped dose data. By providing easily accessible information about radiation exposure, RaySafe i2 allows medical staff to immediately change their behavior in order to minimize their radiation dose. Components of the system: real-time display 4 dosimeters cradle and storage rack dose viewer software mounting material Additional dosimeters, rack and the dose manager software can be ordered separately. Discover how the RaySafe i2 system is enabling clinic staff to "see" their individual radiation doses in real-time »

- See more at: http://www.flukebiomedical.com/Biomedical/usen/radiation-safety/Personal-Dosimetry/RaySafe-i2-personal-radiation-dosimeter-system.htm?PID=79051#sthash.Shf3fkQ7.dpuf