Senior officials with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will attend a “community listening session” Thursday on the West Lake Landfill in Missouri.
The landfill holds waste from the former uranium production facility at Mallinckrodt Chemical Works in St. Louis. It is encompassed within a federal Superfund site, alongside the adjacent Bridgeton Landfill, where an underground fire has been smoldering since 2010.
Albert Kelly, senior adviser to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, and acting Region 7 Administrator Cathy Stepp will attend the meeting “to hear site-related concerns directly from local citizens,” according to the EPA’s latest West Lake Update.
The listening session is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at District 9 Machinists Hall in Bridgeton. An accompanying open house is set for 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the same location, with Kelly and Stepp in attendance during the last hour.
The EPA is continuing to review the remedial investigation addendum and final feasibility study of cleanup of the radiologically contaminated portion of the West Lake Landfill Superfund Site, both issued earlier this year by an engineering consulting firm.
The feasibility study considers four options: taking no action, capping the contaminated material in place, partial excavation disposal, and full excavation and off-site disposal.
An EPA spokesman on Monday did not have a timeline for an agency decision on its alternatives.
