[CPEO-BIF] Drum Dispoal site, Missouri

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Years later, Mo. pollutants fear prompts retesting

The Associated Press
Belleville News-Democrat (MO)
November 5, 2009

In the 1970s, Russell Bliss used his own land in west St. Louis County 
as a dumping ground for dioxin and other pollutants. Now, three decades 
later, there is concern that despite millions of dollars spent on 
cleanup, the pollutants are resurfacing.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Thursday that the city of Wildwood 
has approved spending $300,000 to retest the site, where a developer now 
wants to build 23 new homes.

Meanwhile, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources wants to spend 
$168,000 to retest land around the site and put in eight new wells to 
monitor ground water. DNR officials are concerned that vapors from 
pollutants could migrate into basements.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.bnd.com/336/story/996106.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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