An independent group found more than 22 times the expected level of radioactive lead in a kindergarten playground decades after bomb waste was dumped nearby. The Army Corps says that “report is not consistent with our accepted evaluation techniques.”
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is casting doubt on an independent report that revealed “unacceptably high” levels of radioactive lead at a Missouri elementary school near a creek contaminated with nuclear waste from World War II.
It confirmed the worst fears of many parents, including Ashley Bernaugh, president of the Jana parent-teacher association, whose son attends the school. Bernaugh has been fighting for years to get the school tested after she noticed the Corps of Engineers taking samples from near, but not inside, the school starting in 2018.
Jana Elementary sits in the flood plain of Coldwater Creek, which was contaminated during the 1940s and 1950s when radioactive bomb waste from weapons production was dumped nearby.
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