{"id":22896,"date":"2019-12-04T16:22:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T22:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flovalleynews.com\/?p=22443"},"modified":"2019-12-04T16:22:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T22:22:37","slug":"whats-next-for-victims-of-coldwater-creek-contamination-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flovalleynews.com\/?p=22896","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Next For Victims of Coldwater Creek Contamination?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span style=\"color:#cf2e2e\" class=\"tadv-color\">Part II of a special two-part story on the issue of Coldwater Creek in North St. Louis County over the past 60 years. What\u2019s going on today?<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align:center\"><span style=\"color:#af5312\" class=\"tadv-color\">Somebody Must Have Known that Waste  Dumped in Coldwater Creek was Not Safe <\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span style=\"color:#cf2e2e\" class=\"tadv-color\">By Tom Anselm<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flovalleynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/th.jpg?resize=486%2C365&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22444\" width=\"486\" height=\"365\"\/><figcaption>Coldwater Creek<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It is usually not considered to be good\nform to start a column with questions, but here goes anyway. Did you live in\nthe Hazelwood or Florissant area anytime from the 1950s to the early 2000s? Did\nyou or someone you know who did live there get sick from cancer, or develop an\nauto-immune disease? Did anyone die from their illness? In the previous\nissue,&nbsp; I noted that I was wondering what\nwas going on&nbsp; currently with the\nColdwater Creek story (November 27, 2019)&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I read that uranium\nwaste was getting into the waterways and soil of many North St. Louis County\ncommunities by way of Coldwater Creek as it flowed by the nuclear waste dump\nsites near Berkeley and Lambert Airport. It was believed&nbsp; by many to have a direct relationship to\npeople developing serious cancers and auto-immune diseases. And dying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; I checked the articles on websites and saw a\nFacebook page called \u201cColdwater Creek: Just the Facts, Please.\u201d I had a great\nconversation with Kim Visintine, a former engineer and current trauma nurse who\ngrew up in the area, and is one of the administrators of the Coldwater Creek\npage. She and her husband lost their 6 year-old son to brain cancer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cleanup of Affected Areas<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Here is just a little bit of what has\nhappened and what is continuing to happen with regard to remediating and cleaning\nup the affected areas, and what is going on with potential restitution. Please\nknow, this is by no means an exhaustive account of these issues. Far better\nsources exist for that sort of fact-trip and analysis. I wanted only to know,\nand to share, a few facts. And, my opinion, as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Visintine told me that a final report from\nthe Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Reporting (ATSDR) came out in June\nof this past year. In its conclusions, it seems that the government concluded\nthat radioactive waste from the federal weapons research at Mallinkrodt\nChemical (during its work on the \u201cManhattan Project\u201d) that were stored in\nbarrels above ground in the North St. Louis County area and at Lambert Airport\nindeed contaminated Coldwater Creek. The water seeped in to the surrounding\nsoil and people could be dying because of it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; She said that to get to this point, at\nlast, the point of Federal acknowledgement, is huge, and comes from the efforts\nof people who have banded together, met with Federal agencies, held public forums,\nchronicled the many illnesses and deaths and kept this issue alive. Even as\nmany of them and their family members have gotten sicker. And died. Some of\nthese agencies are the Centers for Disease Control, the ATSDR (above), and The\nArmy Corps of Engineers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Visintine mentioned that the federal\nentities have worked cooperatively with the group, for the most part. There is\nan act called the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act of 1990 (RECA) that is\ndesigned to potentially provide recompense to victims of uranium-related\nillnesses. There is also the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program\n(FUSRAP), that works with the Corps of Engineers as it continues to do <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>clean-up in affected\nareas. The focus now is on what can be done for current and future residents of\nthese areas. And what compensation can be made available for people, past and\npresent, who were sickened and suffered and died by this terrible tragedy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Somebody Had to Have Known<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; And now, my opinion. Well, somebody had to\nknow this waste, this Uranium-238 and Thorium-232, the byproducts of uranium\nenrichment, was not safe. Why else would they have stuck barrels and barrels of\nthis by-product of uranium enrichment in what was then vacant and undeveloped\nareas way out in the north side of the county? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; It seemed that no one bothered to check on\nthe dumps. Until it had dispersed into the entire region, until it had poisoned\nso many who had moved there during the post-war housing boom. Until it was too\nlate. Kids living there in the mid-to-late part of the last century\u2026 so many\nill. Their kids, sick. DNA has been altered. So many diseases, (21 listed that\npotentially qualify for compensation). So many, gone. Somebody had to know.\nWhat is government neglect? Benign indifference? Hard to say. But the damage\nhas been done, and continues to be done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; So what now? Clean-up continues. You may\nhave noticed the repeated use of the word \u2018potential\u2019 regarding compensation.\nVisintine said the acknowledgement of responsibility in the ATSDR report was necessary\nfor people to move forward on that issue. Coldwater Creek people have not yet\nbeen approved for RECA. \n\n&nbsp; Much work needs to be done. This\nstory will continue. I hope my&nbsp; last two\nreports have shed some light, helped in awareness, and&nbsp; advanced the discussion. This story, this\ntragic story, will continue, for many years to come. (For more info, contact\nKim Visintine at kvisintine@sbcglobal.net, and visit the FB page \u201cColdwater\nCreek: Just the Facts Please.\u201d)\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part II of a special two-part story on the issue of Coldwater Creek in North St. Louis County over the past 60 years. What\u2019s going on today? Somebody Must Have Known that Waste Dumped in Coldwater Creek was Not Safe By Tom Anselm &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It is usually not considered to be good form to start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,35,9,15,16,17,20,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alton","category-blackjack-spanishlake","category-columnists","category-features","category-ferguson","category-florissant","category-hazelwood","category-health-seniors","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What\u2019s Next For Victims of Coldwater Creek Contamination? - flovalleynews.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/flovalleynews.com\/?p=22896\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What\u2019s Next For Victims of Coldwater Creek Contamination? - flovalleynews.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Part II of a special two-part story on the issue of Coldwater Creek in North St. Louis County over the past 60 years. 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