St. Louis burning: A ticking time bomb beneath the city?

http://america.aljazeera.com/multimedia/2015/5/st-louis-burning-the-ticking-time-bomb.html

Nobody is really sure what is buried at the West Lake Landfill – or where

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In 2013, Bob Criss, a geochemist at Washington University in St. Louis, determined that groundwater in St. Louis County had come into contact with radioactive waste at the West Lake Landfill.

“All available data show that radionuclides are actively migrating in groundwater, and that off-site groundwater investigations are absolutely necessary,” Criss wrote in his report.

“What frustrates me about these sites is the attitude that nothing ever leaves these sites,” Criss told Al Jazeera. “The persistent denial that these contaminants don’t migrate is wrong.”