West Lake

The Environmental Protection Agency is reviewing documents for cleanup of two sections of the West Lake Landfill in Missouri. Both documents were filed in March by the potentially responsible parties for remediation of Operable Unit 1 (OU-1) and Operable Unit 2 (OU-2) of the Superfund property near St. Louis, according to an April update from […]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved a revised emergency response plan for the radiologically contaminated area of the West Lake Landfill in Missouri. The Oct. 15 approval came after the agency in August rejected both the emergency response plan and the site management plan prepared by contractor Parsons on behalf of the “potentially responsible […]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved a revised emergency response plan for the radiologically contaminated area of the West Lake Landfill in Missouri. The Oct. 15 approval came after the agency in August rejected both the emergency response plan and the site management plan prepared by contractor Parsons on behalf of the “potentially responsible […]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency required significant revisions to four documents submitted for remediation of the radioactively contaminated portion of the West Lake Landfill Superfund Site in Missouri. Contractor Parsons Corp. in July filed draft versions of the emergency response and site management plans for Operable Unit 1 (OU-1) at West Lake, then in August […]

The Department of Energy and two companies have agreed to carry out “remedial design” for the cleanup approach selected by the Environmental Protection Agency for the radioactively contaminated area of the West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton, Mo. The Energy Department, Bridgeton Landfill LLC, and Cotter Corp. are the potentially responsible parties for the EPA Superfund […]

The Department of Energy and two companies have agreed to carry out “remedial design” for the cleanup approach selected by the Environmental Protection Agency for the radioactively contaminated area of the West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton, Mo. The Energy Department, Bridgeton Landfill LLC, and Cotter Corp. are the potentially responsible parties for the EPA Superfund […]

By John Stang The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Feb. 8 directed the potentially responsible parties for environmental remediation of the West Lake Landfill in Missouri to study potential groundwater contamination at the site. The potentially responsible parties are Bridgeton Landfill LLC, Cotter. Corp. LLC, and the U.S. Department of Energy. Under a decision handed […]

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission last week began its full review of a license transfer application that would return control of the nearly decommissioned La Crosse Boiling Water Reactor in Wisconsin to its owner. The nuclear power plant has been closed since 1987, and Dairyland Power Cooperative in March 2016 received NRC authorization to transfer […]

A second defendant has been added to a lawsuit seeking to recoup costs for the remediation of the radioactively contaminated West Lake Landfill in Missouri. Then, in a petition filed Thursday, landfill owner Bridgeton Landfill LLC suggested it would add yet another defendant to the complaint: multinational investment bank Citigroup. On Oct. 23, Bridgeton Landfill […]

A second defendant has been added to a lawsuit seeking to recoup costs for remediation of the radioactively contaminated West Lake Landfill in Missouri. On Oct. 23, landfill owner Bridgeton Landfill LLC sued Mallinckrodt LLC for an unspecified portion of prior and future cleanup costs for the waste disposal facility near St. Louis. In a […]

By John Stang The owner of the radioactively contaminated West Lake Landfill is suing to recoup some cleanup costs from a company that generated radioactive waste sent to the site. Bridgeton Landfill LLC, a subsidiary of Republic Services, filed the lawsuit Tuesday in U.S. District Court for Eastern Missouri against Mallinckrodt LCC, seeking an unspecified amount of money […]

By John Stang The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has settled on a plan for cleanup of radiologically contaminated areas of the West Lake Landfill in Missouri, which it says will save a year of work and cost $30 million less than the previously anticipated approach. Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler on Thursday signed the amended […]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency appears likely this week to issue its final record of decision for cleanup of the radioactively contaminated West Lake Landfill near St. Louis, Mo. Then-EPA Director Scott Pruitt in February announced the agency’s proposed approach to the project: partial excavation, in which soil contaminated at 52.9 picocuries per gram or […]

The Environmental Protection Agency expects to issue its Record of Decision for cleanup of the radioactively contaminated West Lake Landfill in Missouri by Sept. 30. The agency’s preferred option for cleanup is called partial excavation: removing soil contaminated at 52.9 picocuries per gram or more to 16 feet below ground, then covering the area. Some residents […]

The Environmental Protection Agency is scheduled today to release the public comments it received in recent months regarding its preferred plan for cleanup of the radioactively contaminated West Lake Landfill in Missouri. The agency in February announced its “partial excavation” approach, in which it would remove soil contaminated at 52.9 picocuries per gram or more to 16 […]

The resignation of controversy-plagued Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt will not change the federal approach for cleanup of the radioactively contaminated West Lake Landfill in Missouri, according to the agency. On July 5, Pruitt submitted his resignation to President Donald Trump following a 17-month term in office in which he was battered by a […]

The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday the resignation of controversy-plagued Administrator Scott Pruitt would not change its approach for cleanup of the radioactively contaminated West Lake Landfill in Missouri. Pruitt submitted his resignation Thursday to President Donald Trump following a 17-month term in office in which he was battered by a series of reports about […]

The Missouri Attorney General’s Office on Friday announced a multimillion-dollar settlement of a lawsuit with the operators of the Bridgeton Landfill, where a fire is smoldering underground near radioactive material disposed of at the adjacent West Lake Landfill. The state in 2013 sued Bridgeton Landfill LLC, Allied Services LLC, and Republic Services Inc., asserting breach […]

The state of Missouri on Friday formally established a fund for investigation of potential radioactive waste contamination in any jurisdiction. The fund, which would receive no more than $150,000 in any fiscal year, was included in broader legislation addressing operations of the state Department of Natural Resources. Gov. Michael Parson (R) signed the bill on […]

By John Stang The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it has selected partial excavation as its first choice to remove a massive amount of radioactive soil from the West Lake Landfill in Missouri. In a Thursday press release, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said the proposed five-year project would cost $236 million. But a 2017 […]

Despite a self-imposed Jan. 31 deadline,  the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had not announced its decision Wednesday on how it will tackle cleanup of radioactive waste buried in the West Lake Landfill near St. Louis, Mo. The agency said earlier this month that EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt would decide the remediation approach at some point in […]

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt is due this month to issue a decision on the approach for remediation of radiologically contaminated material at the West Lake Superfund Site in Missouri, the agency said Tuesday. A number of options are still being considered, according to an EPA spokesman: “cap in place”; multiple partial excavations […]

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt is expected this month to issue a decision on the approach for remediation of radiologically contaminated material at the West Lake Superfund Site in Missouri, the agency said Tuesday. A number of options are still being considered, according to an EPA spokesman: “cap in place”; multiple partial excavations […]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency anticipates issuing its final remedy plan for cleanup of radiologically contaminated material at the West Lake Landfill in Missouri within a period of months, according to an agency spokesman. The EPA was responding to a query from RadWaste Monitor regarding language added to Rep. John Shimkus’ (R-Ill.) Yucca Mountain legislation […]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency anticipates issuing its final remedy plan for cleanup of radiologically contaminated material at the West Lake Landfill in a period of months, a spokesman said Friday. The agency was responding to a query regarding language added to Rep. John Shimkus’ (R-Ill.) legislation on the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository that […]

Congressman John Shimkus’ (R-Ill.) legislation aimed at advancing development of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository also sets a deadline for the Environmental Protection Agency to prepare a final remedy for cleanup of radioactive material at the West Lake Landfill in Missouri. “Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, […]

Congressman John Shimkus’ (R-Ill.) legislation aimed at advancing development of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository also sets a deadline for the Environmental Protection Agency to prepare a final remedy for the West Lake Landfill in Missouri. “Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Environmental […]

Senior officials with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will attend a “community listening session” Thursday on the West Lake Landfill in Missouri. The landfill holds waste from the former uranium production facility at Mallinckrodt Chemical Works in St. Louis. It is encompassed within a federal Superfund site, alongside the adjacent Bridgeton Landfill, where an underground […]

By Wayne Barber The Environmental Protection Agency continues to believe that people living and working near the West Lake Landfill Superfund Site in Missouri are not being exposed to radiological contaminant levels that pose health concerns. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported this week that a stormwater sample, collected April 30 following a period of heavy […]

Police in Bridgeton, Mo., on Friday arrested 12 people who were preventing vehicle access to the West Lake and Bridgeton landfills, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Protesters said they were concerned about the proximity of radioactive waste at the West Lake Landfill, material from a former uranium production facility at Mallinckrodt Chemical Works in St. Louis, […]