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In the Spring of 2018 the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) held an open comment period on the EPA’s proposed Record of Decision (ROD) regarding the radiologically impacted materials (RIM) at West Lake Landfill. The RIM is radioactive waste from the development of the first atomic weapons during World War II. The radioactive waste was illegally dumped with no containment or lining at the landfill which is situated in the earthquake prone floodplain of the Missouri river.

The 2018 ROD is intended to revise the 2008 ROD, which was never implemented, because of the discovery of an underground fire or “subsurface smoldering event” in a section of the landfill adjacent to the radioactive waste. Officials revealed the underground fire in 2010 after residents became concerned about strong odors coming from the landfill.

The case of West Lake Landfill has been magnified and driven forward by the dedication of citizens educating the public and the EPA itself in some cases.