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Left Behind; Time Bomb
In the 1920's through the 1950's two companies had been dumping asbestos waste illegally in a creek along the Mississippi river. Though both these companies are closed now, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources has done little to clean up the area. Today this is one of the populated suburbs of St. Louis and community leaders suspect that a higher number of cancer cases are being reported from this area.
Tags: pollution; asbestos waste; Missouri Department of Natural Resource; US Environmental Protection Agency; Maline Creek; CertainTeed Plant; GAF Corporation Plant; Bellefontaine
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$151,000 MSD study is called unnecessary
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch found that "a private lawyer for the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District went outside agency channels to hire a local company for an erosion and asbestos study, then covered the $151,000 cost by including it among his firm's legal bills to the district. The now-defunct company had no track record in the field of study. Ratepayers ended up paying seven to 15 times what a district engineer says the study should have cost, and according to some MSD officials, the study wasn't needed to begin with.
Tags: Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District; MSD; St. Louis; Charles E. Polk; sewer district; state bidding; public funds; Nu-Star Distribution; Maline Creek watershed