Eight years ago, the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to cap the radioactive material within the West Lake Landfill found little support from residents of Bridgeton and surrounding communities.

But Monday, the EPA was back in Bridgeton, again briefing the community on what such a cap would look like.

This time, though, the EPA says it is considering other approaches to dealing with radioactive contamination dumped in the Bridgeton-area landfill more than 40 years ago. Residents will have to wait until the end of the year to hear whether nearly a decade of additional studies has convinced the agency that it should remove some or all of the West Lake waste. The agency opted to re-examine the issue after a community outcry to leaving the waste in place.

As the EPA prepares to issue its decision, it billed Monday’s meeting as a way to educate the community on one of the options — capping in place — to deal with the contamination. It plans to hold more meetings to discuss removing some or all of the contamination.

But just hearing the 2008 proposal to cap the waste in place disappointed longtime nuclear activist Kay Drey.