Army Corps finds soil contaminated under some St. Louis-area homes, but no health risk

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Army Corps finds soil contaminated under some St. Louis-area homes, but no health risk
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The Army Corps of Engineers has determined that soil is contaminated beneath some suburban St. Louis homes near a creek where nuclear waste was dumped decades ago, but the contamination isn’t enough to pose a health risk.

ST. LOUIS —

The Corps said that when the Cades Cove subdivision was being built more than 30 years ago, a portion of the creek was covered in fill dirt. The latest testing sought to determine if that fill dirt was contaminated.

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