Visit Weldon Springs Interpretive Center

NEW Event.
Will do again: 2031
Cost: Free
Address: 7295 MO-94, Cottleville/St Charles

Weldon Springs includes both an interpretive center and a viewing platform atop the former disposal cell. The town was platted in 1864 and remained a small town until WW2. See below for more information on Weldon Spring's involvement with WW2.

"In 1941, the United States Army purchased 17,000 acres of land in the surrounding area. The Weldon Spring Ordnance Works built the largest explosives factory in the United States on the site.
"In 1955, the United States Atomic Energy Commission built a uranium ore processing plant on the 2,000 remaining acres. Weldon Spring Uranium Feed Mill Plant produced yellow cake uranium ore. In 1966, the plant closed and remained abandoned for 20 years. The site was contaminated with over 1.5 million cubic yards of asbestos, radioactive uranium and contaminated rubble . The U.S. Department of Energy began a decontamination of the site in the late 1980s and completed it in 2001, with a 45-acre rubble mountain over the site." (wikipedia)