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City of St. Charles plans to investigate water contamination at well site
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ST. CHARLES, Mo. – This week, crews will start putting in permanent monitoring wells in 13 places in St. Charles. With temperatures in the upper teens, workers installed a pair of two permanent monitoring wells on Tuesday.
“Last week, the EPA finished their site investigation of our well field,” said Nick Galla, director of public works for the City of St. Charles. “They did what’s called a direct push testing. They take some soil samples and try to determine where they feel some of the contamination is coming from. The city feels it’s emanating from the Ameren substation site. So they started doing work concentrating around city well six, which is one of the wells we had to turn off last year.”
The City of St. Charles is trying to better understand the extent of the contamination from the Ameren Huster Road substation. In October, FOX 2 reported that four of the city’s seven water wells were shut down due to contamination.
Now, five of the seven water wells have been shut down by the city, and officials are conducting their own independent investigation at the Elm Point Wellfield.
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“These are relatively small wells, about two inch in diameter,” said John Phillips, utility superintendent for the City of St. Charles. “But they go down 75 to 85 and 65 to 75-foot level, so that we can draw water from those two different levels and see if that contamination is heavy or lighter where it might exist at. So we know the path that it’s heading towards our wells.”
St. Charles has been purchasing more than 60% of its water from the city of St. Louis since 2017, spending more than $2 million.
“I want to reiterate that our water is safe,” Galla said. “It always has been safe and will be safe. We never had a detection of that contaminate leaving our treatment system. I want people to rest assure that the city is going to do everything to keep that water safe.”
St. Charles wants the EPA and Ameren to pay for the relocation of city water wells to an area free of contamination. The process could take three to five years to complete.
The EPA has scheduled a community meeting for Feb. 23 to discuss groundwater contamination in St. Charles. They plan to put 26 permanent monitoring wells in 13 different places in the area.
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JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. – Two people are behind bars after a man reportedly attacked a Jefferson County deputy with a screwdriver during an attempted arrest over the weekend.
Prosecutors have charged Nicholas Davis, 47, and Amanda Davis, 45, of Dittmer, Missouri, with felonies in the investigation.
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The alleged attack followed a traffic stop of a driver in the 9500 block of Jones Creek Road on July 7, though the driver was not Nicholas or Amanda.
According to court documents obtained by FOX 2, Nicholas reportedly came out of his nearby home, yelled at a deputy and started approaching him while holding a screwdriver. The deputy initially ordered Nicholas to back away, then used pepper spray.
Per court documents, the deputy attempted to arrest Nicholas, who then struck him in the chest with the screwdriver. Amanda reportedly approached the deputy and pulled him away from Nicholas before both ran inside their home.
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office says the situation prompted an hours-long standoff involving negotiators, a SWAT team and a K-9 deputy. The situation led to Nicholas refusing warnings and being bitten by a K-9.
Nicholas and Amanda are both jailed in the Jefferson County Jail without bond. Nicholas is charged with first-degree assault on a special victim and armed criminal action. Amanda is charged with resisting/interfering with arrest.
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ST. LOUIS — The new St. Louis schools superintendent will be officially sworn into office today. Dr. Keisha Scarlett took over the job in July after the retirement of Dr. Kelvin Adams. She was assistant superintendent in the Seattle Public School District. The installation ceremony is at 6:15 p.m. before the regular school board meeting.
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ST. LOUIS — A gasoline tanker truck crashed into a Metro transit center near Riverview and Hall Streets early Tuesday morning and knocked over a power pole. The pole is leaning on other power lines. Police have the area blocked off here because there is a downed power line. Ameren and Metro crews are also on the scene.
The incident happened around 12:30 a.m. It’s still unclear exactly what caused the crash, but we do that there was a second vehicle somehow involved. The airbags on that second vehicle did deploy.
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Police at the scene have not been able to give us a lot of details. Metro officials tell FOX 2 that the transit center here is operating this morning for passengers and buses. Access to certain areas will be limited here as clean up unfolds.
A Metro spokesperson says half of the station isn’t being used right now because of safety issues. It isn’t impacting overall bus operations, everything is just happening on the other side of transit center.
The extent of the damage to the actual transit center is still unclear, but I’m told it does not appear to be extreme. A Metro spokesperson tells me there were no injuries to any metro workers or passengers. The tanker driver also was not injured.
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