Beyond radioactive waste, burning trash and dangerous chemicals, there’s another risk that could hamper construction of a protective barrier between Bridgeton and West Lake landfills. Birds. City of St. Louis officials have long worried that opening the landfills for any reason — and exposing the buried garbage — would attract birds, potentially threatening air traffic at nearby Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. If the city’s concerns about bird strikes aren’t addressed, plans to build a barrier between the burning underground trash at Bridgeton Landfill and the buried radioactive waste at next-door West Lake could be doomed. Because of a 2005 legal agreement, the city and its airport...
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