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West Lake Landfill

EPA superfund site in Missouri, US

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 3, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

West Lake Landfill is a closed, unlined mixed-waste landfill located in Bridgeton, Missouri. It was featured in the 2015 documentaries The First Secret City and The Safe Side of the Fence, and the 2017 HBO documentary Atomic Homefront. Its contents have been shown to include radioactive waste; it is thus also an EPA Superfund cleanup site.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “West Lake Landfill” is ePA superfund site in Missouri, US. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through West, Lake and Landfill, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015, 2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, West, Lake and Landfill is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “West Lake Landfill” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.