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nothing about spent half of the football game picher oklahoma back in one thousand nine hundred eighty four it was dark didn't have the opportunity appreciate the scenic view that the pitcher offers with pounce so i do nothing really about pitcher at all it became obvious fairly quickly to me that you know we had a hard percentage of kids it more difficult in classroom super kids but. i had. we knew we had some problems. with the with the kids up there move jed are counted as bait to build and the target not about. well he is our son

we want him to be normal lives. as anybody else is huge. problem. i said well you need to come down here and see what what we got is a blow your mind so they ran up here and took a bunch of blood samples from the squad of indian children and man i found high layered can't sets when it started right there when let's say they would never come in here and check the kids and picture the health department with the oklahoma but then i started check in and i found a monster. that all white. boy is coming to.

and so we actually went door to door in the mining communities and knocked on doors and found out how many people had children six and under and could we do lead testing on those children and we tested a little over one hundred kids and found out that forty three percent of those kids had elevated blood lipids so that stand that was really shocking and the e.p.a. came in did. a risk assessment your health risk assessment as well as finally did a record susan and they felt like the primary risk primary pathway was through there and some of the yards tested very high in terms of less toxicity we think about were kids good lead there really to increase risk for some other couple of reasons one as a child or two or four lead through their gut and i thought that was about fifty percent more but with pediatric lead toxicity because what we called the gold medal issues it's only porn's between zero and six years of age and it affects the

belting neurologic system mostly what we consider the softer logic science school issues more than medical issues so that's really the difference the trouble is you can't ever make that go away once that occurs as permanent as a place get this bad some old cities are coated with lead paint that you don't hear of levels this i when you tell someone about lead poisoning like this they need an explanation but words don't quite do it with this much lead waste forty three percent feels like a success it could have been one hundred people don't realize the tar creek was declared a disaster in their good before they even discovered the lead poisoning but they took the kids ten years after the land had been condemned without thinking one might be connected to the other back then they thought if you fix the soil that would fix the children. but you can't fix this land of the waste sits here you

can't leave kids here while you take several decades to move all of. when they took or the rock out of the ground within that rock there are all of the minerals that are really for lead zinc cadmium everything else and they would crush it break it smelt it to get the minerals out to get the metals out and then the little chips of rock that are worth we call it check it well it's tailings it's the tailwinds from mines what's left over from the stuff they didn't use their real inviting you have to admit myself as an adult and when i first saw it i just i just couldn't imagine how it would be the finest thing in the world to could have there and roll down them slide down them four wheel down them anything as a child can you just imagine looking at something that looks like

a gigantic sand pile and be told no you can't go up there i can't imagine that we used to also play on in the wintertime when the snow and ice was gone we used. go to a local salvage yard get a car hood and you never have a good time do you come off one of these wells were small when i was to breath. in a car hood expense they were two or three aboard picture a car that's where most of their risk would be because you have so much metals on the surface still surrounding here. and even if my yards clean if i'm a little kid you'd be hard pressed to keep me from playing out some of those areas at least you know i do you do and so. i mean one time the eagle pitcher minus self is a quarter mile high she can see from downtown. miami. you go way you need to man there are some really big piles there and you'd remember the

big askew just four five six piles right there around picher but you keep driving around you know for miles and you forget oh yeah there's a chap maces over here where piles used to be oh yeah there's a mill pond over here oh yeah there's piles the size of a house that i forget about or the size of an office building you forget about because you're just to work by the big ones. the volume here is hard to describe people don't realize. this. the chance for. us but most of that has been the only way. problem with moving chad and what's left behind is far more dangerous than what they take what's left behind are the small fine materials which are much more biofuel which means that they can be absorbed easier by the stomach and secondly they're also much higher in lead content and about

a thousand times higher in lead and lead content than the gravel people say shape with the word chav most of the chat piles you see out there may have this course material but then there's others group larger concentrations of metals are in the size of the mine waste of course you can you can imagine that this stuff is not going below near as much as this stuff so this these fine particles get blown around and they have the highest concentrations of metals in them i think it's positively residential yard children coming just so you know it's just a lot more mobile home long time ago residents and petrie's to come out on sunday and have picnics on the beach they were actually have been picnics on these this is find caylee. i had been doing three three cham dallas lead

poisoning in the pics and i think i was looking through the tiny little publication that confab had found their exposure to lead between ages seven and twenty when you lead to obesity in later life. and as a high school counselor dealing with young people with eating disorders and or with youth it have trouble learning elmo out of dealings with those kind of camps and one particular student stood out to me and i knew that she'd grown up in quapaw and she had a chat crowd on her property her dad had. built her a sandbox. and in a fading he'd taken out that gravel. that he had taken a funding. there are no doubt marmar and the somebody knew. what lay ahead good partly due to your. i don't know don't tell

me about. this much chat the kids didn't hardly stand a chance. and i wish i could say that all the problems begin and end with chat piles and elevated blood leds and that there was only one problem solved. but this chair just a throw away from one of the largest led strikes on the planet. tries to produce thirty five percent of all metals worldwide for over a decade. every one of these problems was struck from the walls and mines. now we didn't need this metal during the wars. so the government kept these mines home and . remember the iraq i was talking about. yeah this is where those ripples start. my grandfather he was swarmed discovered. commerce way back all probably around one thousand and four but they was drilling the water wheel on the shelf where support of cornish. grandpa got

a hold of them and told them get back here that the sun and the. pitcher feel strong enough about them i can twirl them on the future we all got started it was the wealthiest strong it had here. put me on powder and shot. powder monkeys that's the guys and loads of dynamite in the field the only time i was really scared was when i would hit that stick of dynamite and machine me and the guys at global. neck machine all. going to play out only to know what i mean at that dynamite emulator that machine wanted you kind of flea it's a little bit you know i started in the summer of nineteen forty one i was i was sixteen i want service in the. early in forty three

and my ship got hit by a kamikaze and. hurley in forty four and i was discharged and one i came back from the navy i went to work ground the bad over to dobson it was kind of funny because he was he was still pretty much of a policy that he could shelter what dirt so i want to shove them over there to lay by as over here and they had to bring in seven and strength of empties and he'd get five of those well i was getting two and i like to kill myself trying to catch up with he. wasn't trying to. make some little ones out of big ones with his legs hammer. is a job at times specially when they would go in there and shoot down the roof and they shoot him with. it just brings them water from down the well wishes big scholars things like they actually will. it grows on

a person who worked in the mines the temperature in the room i like the smell i mean most kids we played me in the sheraton almost in the hall you know always going to your share since we all share your company that will. go on everyone knows about the trail of tears over the cherokee nation. all thirty nine tribes in oklahoma have a trail of terror story and i quote ours are nor exceptional and the cop was originally from the mississippi delta the mouth of the arkansas river mississippi river all the way across southern oklahoma was originally they were discovered there in seventeen sixty seven by the french and at the time of discovery of system a quapaw could feel seven days and more years which put the

estimate in a population of about thirty five thousand quite well the major village world saw garp and today they call themselves so got. caught it is french perversion and go up and you know just kind of fell that way so here in so many sixty seven small parks plague hits the try and begins to wipe them out and you can read it in the record and congressional record i've read it is serves the parser no longer the tribal use to be. do not have the right to occupy the whole southern half of arkansas and we need to take and give them a reservation more fitting to their signs then the army began rounding them up.

you know in eight hundred thirty three they made a treaty with the remaining quapaw was to bring to where they are today when they arrived here in eight hundred thirty five. when they arrived to this area and it was only one hundred thirty five miles from remaining out of thirty five thousand back in eighty thirties they sent us here from arkansas and they drew a line on a map the only way we could make what was inside that line so we can't go anywhere else. so the call collars are coming up and running and you know it's eighteen and thirty five. and they're dropped off and this is your land.

so they explore you know basically the east side of the spring river and it's exactly the kind of land they're used to let's go. look and you know cross a river is those high bloods. and. big bluff broad across is called the devil's problem and. some reason it's called. is because they got there. and they were working on how to get across the rest of the i'm going home and but the devil was marching praying and down the top of the blood and everyone who tried to swim across drowned. and so they couldn't cross a river is the double. cross.

because we're a move from their original lands and place right here on a reservation inside indian territory seventy years before the war was struck oklahoma wasn't even a state back then most of the or was on top of our land so the mining companies lease tribal land in allotments to start this operation or the story about land is a story about land owners and stories as much as it is american. cost or change forever that's the minor sun that for chef. here huge grain that move ne through with snow card and pitcher there became the pitcher field that was the boom and there was a huge rush you know of people into that area to start leasing land

and you could buy the secretary of interior forty acre lee since. they stole from the tribe to create the town of picher but for the roads and through the town itself from school. they just took the room this was the largest mining. district in the world at one time so all the munitions for war war and a lot of most come for war through on the american side what came protests. so there was a huge incentive to keep the mining even at one time the government subsidized the mining to keep because it was a strategic mineral the catch him along was that if the secretary of interior found any of the indians to be incompetent then the secretary of interior would manage their release. so the f.b.i.

was under a lot of pressure to have these tribal members sign mining leases if you didn't release to the mining companies b i went to congress and had individual tribal members declared incompetent. turns out that most of the confluence were the ones the mines on the property and a quarter. in the ones that were competent were the ones that were quarter bloater lower and didn't have mining since with rare exceptions the government had a lot to hand in and what's going on out here. tar creek is not a county or town or neighborhood it's the country's worst environmental disaster and after the creek that runs through. its forty seven square miles of virgin

prairie turned into permanent waste land. it's on i'm into federal cash tar creek you wouldn't know it it's like newton's law every action has an equal and opposite reaction you punch a wall the wall gets a hole or yank it's broken. he's beat the hell out of this ground here and she came back swinging. and then of course we were declared a superfund site back in one nine hundred eighty three so we've been dealing with this for a long time yeah the reason they call it superfund is because congress those side barge amount of money plus they taxed oil companies and chemical companies. to put into this pond and they grew to a pretty large amount of money that they called the superfund it was established in the early eighty's to deal with these environmentally founded sites where the responsible parties you know can be located or are not claiming responsibility so

the government has to take over these sites and initiate the cleanup and i remember hearing about in the in the war superfund site in the country and that was based on e.p.a. has a model they call the has a great king system model h.r.s. model and they've changed over the years but at the time the way that model was set up this site scored very high and i'm the original four hundred eleven or some of sites that were added to the national priorities list this was the top scoring site and once we were declared a superfund site that was the beginning of the end because. you just don't bounce back from the initial part of our focus was on water quality or they're cooperating in the war and they came in and they tried to do some diking like i said and it failed so probably one was trying to solve the surface water impacts from the from the contaminated mine water being discharged about how much was. about eight million dollars their theory was water equals water and

doesn't work that way but if you're in the mine and they had to cut twenty four seventh's to get rid of all of the water that was in the building where the mine for located you had tremendous amounts of water that you had to deal with it just wasn't surface water causing this problem that ninety's the folks came. led to this year's children and it was kind of a national trend for the if they saw it little thing that's what they did we had an unusual situation here that caused a new effort out here and that's when e.p.a. designated the surface soils operable unit to u.k. hard the corps of engineers is their prime contractor to come in and do yard clean ups it's pretty simple you go out and dig up some dirt out of the yard you bring in new cleaned or take the top six inches where it's hot or it's above the cleanup standard if you have some below that in that spot you take the next six inches it

cetera ok man i spent eighty thousand dollars to redo my yard. about three feet. deep all around off or up over the dam is one. of the best estimate i've gotten from e.p.a. is a little over one hundred thirty million dollars the average cost to remediate your by the e.p.a. was seventy thousand dollars per house in not believe it was ninety five has some e.p.a. officials kind of office and they tell me what they want to do i said come go with me so we'll go to my pick and i go i'm up on a chip pile and i said evokes think you're going to be able to fix this and one

e.p.a. official made a statement to me on top of that ship all right over there i'll be able to retire here that's their attitude and it's not about what's best for me it's people how can you justify digging up a yard when you have three million turns of contaminants across the street could they have done things differently in the twenty storm the mining boom could they have had managed the waste differently. probably could have done a better job of it but i think about it that's time no should we think about it now damn straight we better think about. yet a chance bad the grounds bad boy things high the reason the e.p.a. came here on day one called this their worst was the water. since the mines close they filled up with water so bad nothing can live in it. and water the pours out of

mines is no bad back in their day to quote always die trying to cross the river to get to their new home is some mean water out here. ninety seven i was actually from what i can remember about the first time he started sniffing around here so to speak that's when the contaminated water started coming up from the underground mine occurring yeah to pump the water out so you can keep in my system drive in so when you stop that fills up over time so they were do you know a marker for that's why they had to continue pumping and they said just a bit of food there are going to stop pumping it within ten years mine water would surface and kill all the fish and turkey that was ignored. when the water is running is where most of the water comes out is right here there's only so much water coming out here it goes that away oh three and goes out that is why there's

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