Four school districts near the radioactive West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton sent letters to parents Monday explaining their plans for a potential emergency at the site. “We remain frustrated by the ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The Superfund site at the West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton is pictured on Friday, Oct. 16, 2020. The area covered by a tarp marks ...

A sign warns of radioactive material at the West Lake Landfill. Thousands of tons of nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project were dumped there in the 1970s (Theo Welling/Riverfront Times). Removing ...

BRIDGETON, Mo. — Residents near a radioactive landfill in St. Louis County were about to learn more about the site's cleanup, but the government shutdown stopped that efforts in its tracks. The ...

BRIDGETON, Mo. — It’s a decision that was years in the making. The Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday its final plan to remove radioactive waste from the West Lake Landfill Superfund ...

Four Missouri federal legislators put the “thanks” in Thanksgiving for a group of mothers who have been fighting for years to clean up the West Lake Landfill, where wastes from 1940s atomic bomb ...

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The West Lake Landfill has been contaminated with nuclear waste for decades. Crews working to clean up the West Lake Landfill in St. Louis County detected contamination in nearby groundwater, forcing ...

Removing radioactive waste from the West Lake Landfill will cost nearly $400 million after federal officials discovered the contamination was far more widespread than previously known, the U.S.

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — Crews working to clean up the West Lake Landfill in St. Louis County detected contamination in nearby groundwater, forcing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to ...

A sign warns of radioactive material at the West Lake Landfill. Thousands of tons of nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project were dumped there in the 1970s (Theo Welling/Riverfront Times). Crews ...