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St. Louisan here, we sure had plenty of it for them to study. It remains a problem to this day. Watch the documentary Atomic Homefront to see for yourself. Jus

St. Louisan here, we sure had plenty of it for them to study. It remains a problem to this day. Watch the documentary Atomic Homefront to see for yourself. Just a few miles from the STL airport, radioactive waste from the Manhattan project remains buried in a landfill where an underground fire has been burning for years. People living near a creek in that area have had wildly high rates of diseases associated with exposure, yet the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers claim it's no big deal.

tylerflick 2y ago
All of this is still probably less toxic than the water in the Lake of the Ozarks (partially kidding).
- fransje26 2y ago
  What's the problem with water in the Lake of the Ozarks?
dole 2y ago
I worked from 2008-2016 next to that landfill [0] and for the last three years of that, being outdoors meant constantly smelling the worst sour milk smell you've ever smelled everyday and stinging your eyes at least once a week. Coldwater Creek [1] is a whole other catastrophe with independent investigators and like you said, denial from the gov't entities. "In August 2015, the United States Army Corps of Engineers admitted that they found thorium-230 in the creek. In January 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention investigated the high rate of cancers in the area, and confirmed a potential link between the cluster and the polluted creek. In 2022, radioactive material was found at Jana Elementary School in the Hazelwood School District in Florissant. The radioactive material includes lead-210, polonium, radium, and other toxic materials." The Army Corps of Engineers has been cleaning up the creek for decades but refuses to share detailed information with the public about its findings." "... Most startling, however, was that the documents indicated that the USACE, dating back to 2016, had notified Hazelwood School Board members that it wanted to enter school grounds to conduct testing. ... Bernaugh and the Jana Elementary PTA sent a letter to parents informing them of their discoveries. On August 5, the Hazelwood School District, in a separate letter, acknowledged that the USACE had informed it of “low-level radioactive contamination” on the property on January 27, 2022. For over six months, it had failed to inform the community of these results, maintaining that the “contamination did not pose an immediate risk.” [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Lake_Landfill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Lake_Landfill [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldwater_Creek_(Missouri_river_tributary) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldwater_Creek_(Missouri_rive... [2] https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/jana-elementary-school-manhattan-project-florissant-missouri-nuclear-waste/ https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/jana-elementar...

tylerflick 2y ago

All of this is still probably less toxic than the water in the Lake of the Ozarks (partially kidding).

fransje26 2y ago
What's the problem with water in the Lake of the Ozarks?

dole 2y ago

I worked from 2008-2016 next to that landfill [0] and for the last three years of that, being outdoors meant constantly smelling the worst sour milk smell you've ever smelled everyday and stinging your eyes at least once a week. Coldwater Creek [1] is a whole other catastrophe with independent investigators and like you said, denial from the gov't entities. "In August 2015, the United States Army Corps of Engineers admitted that they found thorium-230 in the creek. In January 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention investigated the high rate of cancers in the area, and confirmed a potential link between the cluster and the polluted creek. In 2022, radioactive material was found at Jana Elementary School in the Hazelwood School District in Florissant. The radioactive material includes lead-210, polonium, radium, and other toxic materials." The Army Corps of Engineers has been cleaning up the creek for decades but refuses to share detailed information with the public about its findings." "... Most startling, however, was that the documents indicated that the USACE, dating back to 2016, had notified Hazelwood School Board members that it wanted to enter school grounds to conduct testing. ... Bernaugh and the Jana Elementary PTA sent a letter to parents informing them of their discoveries. On August 5, the Hazelwood School District, in a separate letter, acknowledged that the USACE had informed it of “low-level radioactive contamination” on the property on January 27, 2022. For over six months, it had failed to inform the community of these results, maintaining that the “contamination did not pose an immediate risk.” [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Lake_Landfill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Lake_Landfill [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldwater_Creek_(Missouri_river_tributary) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldwater_Creek_(Missouri_rive... [2] https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/jana-elementary-school-manhattan-project-florissant-missouri-nuclear-waste/ https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/jana-elementar...