[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, FORMER SITES: "Army Corps finds soil contaminated under some St. Louis-area [MO] homes, but no health risk"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army Corps finds soil contaminated under some St. Louis-area homes, but no health risk
The Army Corps of Engineers has determined that soil is contaminated beneath some suburban St. Louis homes near a creek where nuclear waste was dumped decades ago, but the contamination isn't enough to pose a health risk.

ST. LOUIS — The Army Corps of Engineers has determined that soil is contaminated beneath some suburban St. Louis homes near a creek where nuclear waste was dumped decades ago, but the contamination isn't enough to pose a health risk.

Soil beneath six homes at the Cades Cove subdivision in Florissant "will not need to be remediated,'' Robin Parks, a lead engineer for the St. Louis District of the Corps, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Thursday. ''That's how we say something is clean, in simple terms.’'

The Corps announced in March it was taking soil samples from the properties that sit near Coldwater Creek, a meandering waterway contaminated after nuclear waste was dumped there in the 1960s. The decision was made after contamination was found in the homes' backyards, but not the front yards, the Corps said at the time.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.startribune.com/army-corps-finds-soil-contaminated-under-some-st-louis-area-homes-but-no-health-risk/600373614

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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