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🗓️ 2 June 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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For decades, kids in St. Louis County caught crawdads in Coldwater Creek, made mudpies, went swimming -- and were exposed to nuclear waste. Hear the story of how St. Louis became a dumping ground for radioactive waste generated by the Manhattan Project.
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0:57.4 | Debbie Mayfrey. Podcasts, Boston. Debbie Mason had a typical childhood in Florissant, Missouri. |
1:02.3 | A house and a yard she played in with her three sisters. |
1:05.5 | The house was unremarkable and therefore perfect. |
1:09.3 | A single-story red brick affair with white trim and a screened-in |
1:12.8 | porch where the family often ate meals. And behind the house, there was a creek. We had a tree |
1:19.1 | house down there, a tree swing. We were always down in the creek. We were splashing in the water. |
1:26.0 | And we played down there a lot. You know, we were kids. So we were splashing in the water and we we played down there a lot um you know we were kids |
1:30.5 | it was great down there the sisters loved the creek so much they even played there in the |
1:37.3 | winter we would attempt to walk on what we thought was frozen ice but it was not and my sister |
1:44.1 | fell in. |
1:46.0 | And we got in trouble because we weren't supposed to be walking on the frozen creek. |
1:51.0 | Well, that beloved creek has a name. It's called Coldwater Creek, and it winds through |
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