A Quarter Century Of EPA Dithering Beckons An Environmental Disaster

"The West Lake facility was contaminated with radioactive waste from uranium processing by a St. Louis company known as Mallinckrodt Chemical. The waste was illegally dumped in 1973 and includes material that dates back to the Manhattan Project, which created the first atomic bomb in the 1940s. The Environmental Protection Agency is still deciding how to clean up the waste. The landfill was designated a Superfund site in 1990."