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Tar Creek buyouts create ghost town

 
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PICHER — As the final residents prepare to move out of Picher, vandals move in with little fear of police, an official said.

Picher is a former mining town at the center of the Tar Creek Superfund site, a 40-square-mile area polluted by decades of lead and zinc mining.

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Tar Creek buyout facts

→Voluntary federal buyout announced: May 2006

→Towns involved: Picher, Cardin and Hockerville

→Expected completion: July

→Cost: about $55 million

→Number of offers accepted: 817

→Number rejected: 19

IF YOU GO
See the ‘Tar Creek’ movie

→University of Oklahoma in Norman: 7 p.m. Friday

→Grove: Mid-April (date to be announced)

→University of Arkansas, Fort Smith: 9 a.m. April 20

→Chickasaw Nation in Ada: 7 p.m. April 22

Contact: Matt Myers at tar creek@gmail.com for more details.

An Army Corps of Engineering study in 2006 revealed that much of the town was sitting on deteriorating mines that could eventually collapse.

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