READ MORE:A county in Missouri has been deemed a 'cancer cluster' due to World War II-era radium used in America's atomic bomb efforts littering the region.
The Environmental Protection Agency found levels exceed limits for drinking water and plans to investigate whether it's leaked into nearby wells or it the toxins could reach the Missouri River. From 2015 to 2019, St Louis County had an age-adjusted lung cancer mortality rate of 38.5 per 100,000 people, which was higher than the national rate but lower than Missouri's.
Testing of the landfill in the 1980s showed high levels of radium - and shortly after residents had spikes in cancer diagnoses. Be the first to commentBe one of the first to commentComments"We bought a home north of this area in late 1980's. Cold Water Creek was 100 yards from our home. The article states that the creek was deemed one of the most polluted in the country in 1981. Nothing about the creek was ever disclosed by the owners or the real estate company. In fact, my wife was raised in North St. Louis County and I will tell you, back then, very few people knew about this.
Debi and Doug grew up in the now nonexistent Brownleigh neighborhood near the Manhattan Project radioactive waste storage site at the St Louis Airport . 'Once completed, information from the well network will be evaluated and conclusions about the nature and extent of groundwater impacts, including the possible source, will be provided in the Remedial Investigation Report.'
She was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer in 2013, despite never being a smoker, and succumbed to the disease last year - her diagnosis has since been linked to radioactive waste disposal. The EPA is now adding groundwater monitoring wells between the West Lake Landfill and the Missouri River to determine if radioactive contamination is spreading from the site.
Groundwater wells were expected to be fully installed by August 2022, 'but the detections in offsite locations required a significant expansion of the network in order to delineate exactly where the impacts are found,' Snehal Bhagat, the Remedial Project Manager at West Lake said at a December press briefing.
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