It also found high levels of polonium, radium and other material in various places throughout the school. The Boston Chemical study cited levels of radioactive isotope lead-210 that were 22 times the expected level on the kindergarten playground. “Everybody’s just terrified,” Chapman said. But Chapman said the new report - funded by two law firms seeking compensation for illnesses and deaths allegedly caused by the creek contamination - has created worry for current and former parents, teachers and staff. Remediation efforts - digging up contaminated dirt and taking it by covered rail car to a waste management facility in Idaho - aren’t expected to be complete until 2038.ĭawn Chapman, co-founder of the environmental group Just Moms STL that has pushed for cleanup of Coldwater Creek, acknowledged the difficulty in connecting illnesses to contamination. The Environmental Protection Agency designated the creek as a Superfund site in 1989. Louis from 1942 to 1957 and shipped waste to a site near Lambert Airport, where it made its way into the 19-mile-long waterway that flows into the Missouri River.
Nuclear waste from World War II weapons production as part of the Manhattan Project contaminated Coldwater Creek. “I’m so happy you’re considering our babies now. “I’m happy that you have a plan now,” said Patrice Strickland, who has two children at the school. Some said they heard about it first on the news or on Facebook. Many speakers at the meeting welcomed the shutdown of the school, but wondered why the school district didn't communicate about the problem. District spokesperson Jordyn Elston said she didn't have information on the remainder of the week. It wasn't immediately clear if students will continue at the school through the rest of the week. “I do not understand why it's not closed now,” William Johnson, the father of a current student at the school and three others who went there, told the board.
The new report worried parents, especially since the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry stated in 2019 that people exposed to Coldwater Creek from the 1960s to the 1990s may have an increased risk of bone cancer, lung cancer and leukemia. Still, several politicians urged immediate closure of the school. He called the Boston Chemical report “incomplete and not consistent with the approved processes required to do an evaluation at one of our sites.” Louis, said the agency's evaluations found no contamination between the wooded site and the school or its playground. Phillip Moser, program manager of the Corps’ Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program in St. The decision came even as a Corps official raised questions about the Boston Chemical study.
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