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EPA’S OWN EXPERTS DISAGREE ON ASSESSMENT OF WASTES AND SOLUTION AT WEST LAKE LANDFILL

NEW REPORT SHOWS EPA’S OWN EXPERTS DISAGREE ON REGION 7 ASSESSMENT OF WASTES AND SOLUTION AT WEST LAKE LANDFILL, Just Moms St Louis, 07/22/2016

New Report shows EPA’s own experts disagree on Region 7 assessment of wastes and solution at West Lake Landfill.A new report released by Bob Alvarez and Lucas Hixson draws conclusion from the newly released EPA National Remedy and Review Board critique as well as documents and emails discussing the 2008 decision to cap-and-leave the wastes at West Lake Landfill. This report is short and a must read for everyone. There are links to source documents at the end of the report.This report clearly describes the disastrous decisions being made by Region 7, despite EPA’s own top scientists.

This, in fact, is why Missouri’s Federal Representatives and Senators all cast a vote of no confidence in EPA’s ability to successfully manage and remediate the atomic weapons waste at the landfill. Thus, prompting legislation this past fall to take control of the radioactive wastes away from EPA and give jurisdiction to the Army Corps of Engineers FUSRAP.

Based on the linked report, It sounds like EPA’s review board and top scientists have also cast their own vote of no confidence in Region 7.

You can find the report here.

To learn more about FUSRAP and its involvement in St. Louis clickhere.

To follow the status of bipartisan legislation, HR4100, click here.

Dangerous events that were not considered in the 2008 EPA Record of Decision.

An underground fire, or smoldering subsurface event, has been burning since 2010 and is expected to burn for another 5-10 years. This underground fire is the size of 6 football fields. Everyday this fire burns it is inching its way closer to the known nuclear waste. Attorney General Chris Koster warned that a Chernobyl-like event could occur if the fire meets the radioactive waste, i.e. radioactive particles could attach to steam or smoke and be released into the atmosphere……… http://www.stlradwastelegacy.com/new-report-shows-epas-own-experts-disagree-on-region-7-assessment-of-wastes-and-solution-at-west-lake-landfill-07222016/

July 25, 2016 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, wastes