{"id":15940,"date":"2016-01-03T17:33:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T22:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15940"},"modified":"2016-01-03T17:33:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T22:33:11","slug":"the-looming-environmental-disaster-in-missouri-that-nobody-is-talking-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15940","title":{"rendered":"The Looming Environmental Disaster In Missouri That Nobody Is Talking About"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Looming Environmental Disaster In Missouri That Nobody Is Talking About<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Since we first highlighted the\u00a0potential for a “catastrophic event” in Missouri\u00a0<\/strong>three months ago<\/a>, there has been little mainstream media coverage. However, as\u00a0Claire Bernish via TheAntiMedia.org<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>notes, residents near the smoldering fill have expressed increasing frustration with the quarreling agencies offering few answers for an increasing number of health issues, like asthma. For now, it\u2019s startlingly apparent\u00a0no one<\/em>\u00a0knows exactly what\u2019s happening with the West Lake and Bridgeton Landfills – though the smoldering below the surface doesn\u2019t cease and floodwaters continue to rise.<\/p>\n

What happens when radioactive byproduct from the Manhattan Project comes into contact with an \u201cunderground fire\u201d at a landfill? Surprisingly, no one actually knows for sure; but residents of Bridgeton, Missouri, near the West Lake and Bridgeton Landfills \u2014 just northwest of the St. Louis International Airport \u2014 may find out sooner than they\u2019d like.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And that conundrum isn\u2019t the only issue for the area. Contradicting reports from both the government and the landfill\u2019s responsible parties, radioactive contamination is actively leaching into the surrounding populated area from the West Lake site \u2014 and likely has been\u00a0for the past 42 years<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In order to grasp this startling confluence of circumstances, it\u2019s important to understand the history of these sites.\u00a0<\/strong>Pertinent information either hasn\u2019t been forthcoming or is muddied by disputes among the various government agencies and companies that should be held accountable for keeping area residents safe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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West Lake Landfill was placed on the National Priorities List in 1990, giving the Environmental Protection Agency regulatory authority through its designation as a Superfund site. However, the area wasn\u2019t a planned radioactive waste storage site. Uranium processing residue leftover from the World War II-era Manhattan Project was originally dumped there, illegally, by a contractor for former uranium processing company and General Atomics affiliate, Cotter Corporation in 1973.<\/p>\n

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The Looming Environmental Disaster In Missouri That Nobody Is Talking About Since we first highlighted the\u00a0potential for a “catastrophic event” in Missouri\u00a0three months ago, there has been little mainstream media coverage. However, as\u00a0Claire Bernish via TheAntiMedia.org\u00a0notes, residents near the smoldering fill have expressed increasing frustration with the quarreling agencies offering few answers for an increasing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[271,7576,11411,1001,5323,533,2498,1481,4275,3184,11412,4318],"class_list":["post-15940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-environment-2","tag-etc","tag-flood-waters","tag-flooding","tag-manhattan-project","tag-missouri","tag-ohio","tag-uranium","tag-us-department-of-energy","tag-us-epa","tag-west-lake-landfill","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15941,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15940\/revisions\/15941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}