EPA plans to monitor toxic town's legacy

 
By John David Sutter
Published: May 18, 2008

EARLY 1900s

Part of Picher's legacy will be its toxicity.

"In 100 years, where is that (mine) water going to go?” resident David Ray said. "It eventually will get into Grand Lake , and it eventually will get into the aquifer. Water has a mind of its own. It simply goes.”

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will continue working in Picher, at the Tar Creek Superfund Site, for at...


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