EPA in Bridgeton sampling for radioactive soil

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EPA in Bridgeton sampling for radioactive soil

BRIDGETON, Mo. - The EPA is testing sites around the West Lake Landfill Superfund in Bridgeton in search of any contaminated soil. "What we're really doing is making sure our sampling includes testing for that sentiment that could have been running off the site in the 1970s and 1980s. We're also testing the stuff above that and up to the surface," Tom Mahler, remedial project manager, said. Mahler says they are testing five specific locations,…