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Published: May 18, 2008
EPA plans to monitor toxic town's legacy
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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