Dive summary:
- An underground fire at the Bridgeton Sanitary Landfill in Missouri's St. Louis County is raising concerns with locals who claim to have been suffering negative health effects from the landfill fire.
- While it is not known how long the fire has been burning, Missouri Coalition for the Environment director Kat Logan-Smith said that underground fires can burn for years at a time and that the state needs to conduct air quality tests.
- The Bridgeton Sanitary Landfill is adjacent to the West Lake Landfill, which stores nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project, which makes the underground fire a public safety issue, according to Logan-Smith.
From the article:
Coalition director Kat Logan-Smith told KMOX Radio that residents are complaining about health effects but are not getting any official information about what they are breathing.
It isn't clear how long the fire has been burning, but Logan-Smith says landfill fires can sometimes burn for years. ...
