Saturday, December 29, 2012
Here are some interesting notations from the Environmental Protection Agency open house held in Wildwood earlier this year. With the removal of more buried barrels of paint waste earlier this month, some residents still wonder what to believe.
At the last open house meeting hosted by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials, they told Wildwood residents they do not believe there are any remaining human health issues at the former Superfund Bliss-Ellisville site in Wildwood. A portion of the remediated area, the Strecker Forest development, was proposed to be constructed into 21 houses by homebuilder Wesley Byrne. But some residents and city officials were not sure what to make of the latest EPA cleanup effort and underground barrels found at the former toxic waste dump off Strecker Road in Wildwood earlier this month. See previous article: EPA's Latest 'Dioxin-Related' Cleanup in Wildwood Prompts New Concerns The three barrels, estimated at 55-gallon drums, were …
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Still dealing with dioxin issues 15 years post-cleanup but with new test results: Environmental Protection Agency's Region 7 team inform Wildwood residents most of contaminated area is safe for living and future building.
For the last five years, concerned Wildwood residents, city staffers, council members, government officials, consultants, lawyers, a judge and a particular home developer have been trying to determine just how far-reaching the devastating effects of a dioxin-laced Superfund site in Wildwood may extend to land that immediately adjoins the contaminated homestead of infamous waste hauler Russell Bliss. Home builder Wesley Byrne is particularly focused on environmental issues related to the controversial land, because he and Wildwood city representatives have been locked in a lawsuit since 2007 that prevents him from building a new subdivision on the 18.3 acres he owns there. New answers now are coming from the U.S. leading authority in …
Friday, June 22, 2012
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency experts provided a final report on Thursday evening for the Strecker Forest Expanded Site Review recently conducted in Wildwood.
Three geographic areas of environmental concern in Wildwood were reviewed by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency experts Thursday evening, as a final report to the project called the Strecker Forest Expanded Site Review. Wildwood residents learned that while this report concludes this part of the overall EPA process, EPA's involvement in the former Superfund area called the Bliss-Ellisville site "is not over." The open house occurred at the Daniel Boone Library Branch in Ellisville. Overview of Project, Per New EPA Fact Sheet: Strecker Forest Homesites The southern portion of the 18-acre parcel where new homesites are proposed is free of contaminants exceeding a level of concern, except for a small, isolated area where elevated dioxin …
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Former Superfund area in Wildwood gets reassessed by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency team. Are contaminants at levels that threaten human health? EPA will host open house Thursday evening. Read the final report.
A proposed home development subdivision on property in Wildwood that used to be one of the worst Superfund sites in U.S. history is declared safe for human use and living for a second time, based on dust, soil, metal and water samples taken and reassessed recently by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 7 team. Highly controversial issues surrounding a proposed custom home subdivision on 18.3 acres in Wildwood will come to a head Thursday evening when EPA officials host an open house to deliver their final findings of the area, as previously reported in Eureka-Wildwood Patch. See related article: EPA to Host Open House for Wildwood, Final Strecker Forest Development Report The lengthy final EPA report for the Strecker Forest …
Marc Perez
7:02 am on Saturday, December 29, 2012
Every Government agency that exists could state the Dioxin sites are clean and clear, ready to go, but who would build/buy a house on a superfund clean up site? Not going to happen! Might be a good place for a park? more ›