Exelon Says Feds Aware that Waste being Dumped at St. Louis' West Lake Landfill

摘要

During three months in 1973, dump trucks carrying more than 40,000 tons of dirt made their way from a site near the airport to a landfill on the western edge of St. Louis County. The truck owners didn't have to pay to dump their loads; what they delivered was billed as clean fill dirt that the landfill operator could use to cover other refuse. But it wasn't clean fill. The dirt came from Latty Avenue, which was used as a storage site for radioactive materials purchased from the federal government. The materials were owned by a Colorado company, Cotter Corp., which was looking to squeeze what value remained in wastes left behind from uranium processing that supplied the nation's nuclear weapons buildup.