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of our special report on how the relentless pursuit of metals production in the u.s. may be poisoning parts of oklahoma leading to a potential environmental disaster stay with us. we're right at the eight hundred foot elevation level right here and a lot of. mine discharges are coming. right at a hundred foot. i. mean you can tell the one of the red water mixes with a clear water that's the difference. although this looks weird scum still got a lot of metals in it because it's discharging out to catch. the sides of the mind that has the minerals that are submerged beneath the water and it's isolated from oxygen oxygen is the key. there back when they first filling up there was a lot of oxygen available in the mines and that was causing oxidation of the mantle

which in turn creates basically sulfur so if you're casting you have toward her. which starts off in keenan's as runs through the mining bill becomes contaminated down that which is just south of picher and then runs on the side of commerce runs through the center of miami only into the osho river. on into green light let's just say it's been doing that since eighty three nothing but orange yucky smelly. but his watershed has been clocking five million gallons a day since there have been clocks. and if water rolls into the mines or slides off a chap pilot flows out from the underground it's real bad news. isaac newton says the reaction to the mining is

a life time polluted water. this my system swallows any ground water hole and then coughs up one's blood. and you look at these problems and say this has been here for a long time. it's not just twenty five years of superfund it's it's since money. and we all benefited from that money either directly or indirectly. it is a good thing for the united states but this is a legacy. kind of an obligation to fix. if you drive through picher right now we drive down the road nothing's changed nothing is really changed that they put us on the m.p.l. list it's a disgrace and it's sad. but no one has done anything about the water the air but i'm ashamed right now our military action

agency the bureau of indian affairs the part of the interior because they've spent all this time talking to us telling us you know what they think we want to hear but if you drive through picher and you drive down doubtful road it looks the same as it did when they turned off the pumps a little walk away no one cares about the people that live here this is not a safe place to live it's a good place there's good people here and it's not fair they've been whispers about buying this place out since it was named the superfund in eighty three i mean horrible water all this mine waste direct danger to children they couldn't get the help they need it should have been easy to put a buyout together whether it's a dioxin scare they want to build a lake or highway somewhere buyouts happen all the time and human health dangers here seem to qualify plus starkey granted instead an ace in the hole oklahoma

senior senator jim inhofe is chair of the environmental and public works committee in the senate this committee over seas and directs the e.p.a. and inhofe oversaw the committee as far as environmental bio money goes in half was the faucet and you have a place like this in your home state chairing the kind of committee that can actually help people and you refuse well i could also know what he was going to. the problem was that inhofe as a soldier of industry. fact is inhouse brother even used the word for the insurance agency owned by the mining companies inhofe is indeed with polluters so he can't just order a buyout because that would prove this land is not fit for people and if it's not fit and someone's got to pay for what got done and that can get expensive so they just pay in hope to make this buyout talk to sapir and the citizens that stay but to prove that he was working for auto walk county folks he put together an eighteen million dollar cleanup plan to stand in for

a buyout made everyone wait three years while they pulled it together using a move all the checks they were in the math on the planet same day it was released if you are in fifty trucks a day all day he would take forty years just to move the check forty years moving the chair will cost two hundred twenty five million not a. complete buy i was estimated at fifty million and everyone knows inhofe not much of a science and there could be that man made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the american people i believe it is but it turned out he was no math guy either i think came news that not even enough can span if you got away from the mining. you didn't even know noise or anything there was always a problem and it just settled and i am surprised you didn't

get your just a little feeling and they looked at water and i looked at last. well the trouble is they forgot to look at subsidence risk which is of course the undermining because it was hard rock mining you know it turns out that there is significant undermining which really shouldn't be a surprise to anybody since they took out i don't know two hundred fifty million tons of or maybe more you know this underground mining was done sometimes clear up the worley of what they saw tree roots. when you have a several hundred foot mine room that's going almost to the surface guess what it's going to collapse on these days in a better way and that you're seeing out there it's all undermined in pitcher and cardinal more people are living they could wake up one day in the house the states last and almost. they didn't care what

they did and the city pitcher is just settling builders you know. i think they pulled. all medium sized cave in now this is media. this is a sample our way it's the biggest cave in an area that you're field right here with probably i will say another hundred fifty foot deeper than what the water is right now. but i think there is a public policy issue here. if you can account for all the risk and environmental side should charge well i've been around these my whole life and i'm still scared i mean. there's just no forgiveness if anything happens around me. if you start going down it is your history. it sounds

crazy but those holes are actually a blessing and state can afford to move everyone out and off it already pounded his gavel that the current problems weren't bad enough so things had to get worse to get anything done several areas collapse that summer on and off finally agreed to a study to prove the extent the undermine or. not it needed to be proven another study felt exhausting you know it felt tired to have to prove that the land was actually undermined and more holes were coming but it was a material chance to get a buyout so nobody feeds this to me and no study. you can't ignore the there or what the data shows in regards to the severity of the underground money when it was done appear and you cannot because you didn't in any way as we were able to get political support to evaluate their risk then it became obvious that people should live there

and it's best for in the long run because i don't worry about any more kids being raised innocent by our. you know we've got to put an end to it what we're doing is we're going in finding comparables outside the project area. and even keep in mind superfund site is a bigger area and the project area project area is that area that i told you about a forty square mile area that was in that subsidence teen study they're finding properties outside that area and then giving them comparable value for their property the trust house try to make some provisions to make sure that everybody gets a minimal level of housing so in other words if you live in a room and substandard housing we don't want to give you just enough money to go live in some senior housing and i am are somewhere else people get an appraisal and and i don't care if you live in a five hundred thousand dollars house in a variable and you go i am my house was worth more than you know and so what i keep

telling people is be realistic in reality if you took that house in the condition that it's in take it and stick it in my oklahoma sign on the front yard how much do you really think you're going to get for that house kind of interesting and so busy trying to do the appraisal issues and those kind of things to get people help what are very firm values i mean that's our hand. like with an appraisal that everybody's happy with their phrase for. this that it's a chance for these people that they really would never have otherwise i'd like to stay braced for my life ask here becomes how do i feel like i've got maybe a year or two years you know i mean not even had symptom god but years i've got paid. i hate to. you know really do stuff on. pictures. but you have to get ready for.

different things as somebody who has to be nice to have a nice house you know very i'm not able to take care of her and it's a hard you know so. yeah a much but it's home and it's got to be hard leaving home practically being made to leave these places are just on their health and their children so it's one of their property values but it's still home and once the bio reaches critical mass there won't be any more fire department any more polies any more electricity or water or stores it'll just be paved country on with rusted street signs and when you go through all that and are told the one place you can't live is home you deserve by a process that is dignified and clean. so the trust was appointed to represent the citizens during the by a process they carry out orders from the federal government and all the crazily

issues and cut checks for the homes and i'm just making a little short statement i was offered a fifteen dollars a square foot for my business and there's no way that you can deal i mean a story speech and i know it's not targeting it's just forty buildings and they'd use knots i'm not there only if you go look at it we're staying in from our house and for the base package the gunshop the how the land three lots eighty dollars and there is no way you go to my room and replace this for eighty thousand dollars is impossible. hundred thousand be fair yes and i don't think i can actually go to my man replies of one hundred. and i went through all of trying to find out why they said well that this is what we are part of that their procedures have been in business for twenty five years they should know what they're doing. live below the belt. the appraisal company cinnabar services out of tulsa is

doing shoddy work and the trust is panem one point eight million dollars to do shoddy work they're rude to the people they have consistencies and the trust will not hold them accountable. to listen only second i i i listened what you guys listen we have people want to say this is not like the first by a well we did a sentence we put something out for bid we hired a contractor we have gone and and gotten their appraisals and we've had them review i mean and in all honesty the values are higher in this buyout than they were in the first one and what do you see in the news record here's today's news record trust the fans buy out approach the trust is circling the wagons you know the trust is supposed to take care of these people and they're not doing

are they're going to be people who feel like they were to more yes what i can do it sure is that there's been no conspiracy on the part of anyone to get higher values for certain people now let me finish. what there is is a lot of innuendo and accusation and yet there is no proof. ok we're coming up on jenelle's brother this again hard that gray have his lap siding hundred fifteen thousand. their house all of them are very. probably. ok this has also left long through messy unsavory beats and they've been offered seventy thousand cinnabar said there is something wrong with the beats appraisal so they use

a trance why did you not tell me we did we asked for your rebate but you didn't raise that as it mean if we did you hope we did. there's something wrong with the beach appraisal so listening to the same and. i don't what it means we got three did. it it would take about a. marquee to make it me and tell me you didn't find anything wrong. thank you. the appraisers probably have a tough with this town there are some poor people here there are some bad looking homes and i'm sure those create some challenges but you know missing sammy's house is the same size as the heart's missing sami's is much newer and even if you're blind and a little crazy and think these homes are in similar condition and they can bedroom

isn't a bedroom if it's not close to a bathroom there's still a forty five thousand dollars difference in a town where the average home is fifty eight grand that's almost the cost of a whole other house this is the kind of appraisal work the trust hands behind it and they said mrs home on her couch and say maybe we gave the hearts too much i mean we made a mistake. and in the same breath the thing missing sammi got a good run five thousand dollars if you're just not a hollywood story and where does this leave those who've already worked a lifetime and of course an ok i paid back a chapter eleven and ninety two years old. and i said i did that it. he broods see it she called me the other day she's so worried about hoover it seems that lawn she got not neighbors run across the street sell she's got in sugar about her house since they offered her a new two thousand on it i think she said tell me so i don't know russians wonder.

they offered eighty four years young jackie briggs the twenty two thousand dollars for her home it doesn't matter what her home was like we're going to move on there . she says gentleman the purpose of this letter is to explain why i do not have a bill of sale when i was twenty one i bought my home in picher oklahoma in the fall of one nine hundred forty three from dewey fields for three hundred seventy five dollars i've lived here for almost sixty three years and now almost eighty four years old and have lived in the neighborhood seventy seven years longer as far as i know than anyone now living or dead it is with much regret that i will have to leave my home at this late time in my life but i cannot stay without police protection sewer service utilities and safe neighbors please let me be among the last.

how do you expect an eighty year old woman who's lived in their house for sixty years who's on a fixed income. how do you expect her to move out of the superfund site twenty thousand dollars an hour you know it's easy for us solders to camilo their house there my gosh your house in worth five thousand dollars that's right but that's it ladies home that's all she had us and now you're going to take it away from her and now you've got to make her get into it to get out of here and a funny thing is we can meet here and spend seventy thousand dollars to dig up her yard but we can't give her enough money to me about a tailbone. you know when he was only three he got her at her is what environmental problems look like her they look like people problems

environmental problems are people problems as long as gravity still holds us here. they aren't separate you said that your offer here. and these folks have been stolen from their land raped their names drug through the mud but they are tough as hell break everything else you can grab at these people and breaking on your science on your say so on your legislation of the month hell yes they get red headed mally when things seem counterfeit what else do you have on there ain't much . if your word is so and you're back. one hundred years later they're still here still fighting for their health and their cool spot of their. whether it's fair weather elaine they are gone this will not be home anymore. and a hundred years after the first pickaxe struck oklahoma go they're handing this

place back to the quapaw appreciate your here's the worst superfund site in the country. not prove it was even started. we don't just because the buyouts were on there's a need to go over this or they can buy these people out which is that what they're going to do but the tribes going to be here forever because the government's not going to give them any more land you can see that with all this mine why it's covering my aunt's cape it's really not usable in the sixty's eagle poster was pressing for them to get out of that or lisa's you want to move away also offered to put the. backing mines. and the department of interior the state. there. were no longer really good for anything they were for

agriculture or any other purpose but the only economic group to lay off. the gravel on the surface in the. ground when they started realizing that had heavy metals it was was an environmental hazard. part of interior realized that that's a liability since they manage the asset for the try and fail allow that to be sold and they would incur liability because this chat were sold and put somewhere else that place not become a superfund site they're lucky there's so little left today there's no telling what the epidemic would look like if there were five times as much lead poaching their young polluting creeks making the ground tremble but eighty years later there's at seventy five million times eighty years of kids best through struggling and school . year gone this chad didn't just heard the kids who tested i. was here in

mountains before anyone was running test. so not only is the chad left on the indian leaves where the tribal member can't use the land then they found out they couldn't sell it either so their land became useless result the cats and just sitting here for eighty ninety one hundred years you know were being restricted for more sales but the money indians are not this check causes lead poisoning that's not an opinion it ruins this very land that was given to the quapaw to replace what they gave up in the b. i made sure this chat stayed right here the da said these are the people who are going to believe because of this waste. and what is now so clear about this function is that damaging the land is not a separate act from damaging a culture. the whole reason that the government gave the tribe

just one hand was to replace the land where they came from you know that require called tried occupied most of what is now arkansas. you know and i feel bad for the people that are living over in picher. i feel bad that they don't have to move i feel bad that they're going to have to be relocated you know what i call posed in one leader console. so. it's giving dad out here but not seeing hardly any birds squirrels you know. ducks you know i don't know what's going on here this this is like rachel carson's nightmare today you know we're having

a silent forward you know where are the birds where's the wildlife. just don't see this is really unusual i've never been on this river and seen it you can even hear a bird chirping you know. i think the worst story would have to be. the worst story would have to be the kids we let slip through the critics and.

the kids. didn't get help early on. because if you look back if you look back in school history if you talk to families. those problems are here. and we didn't work. for hundreds of towns and cities have diminished and even died when industry pulls up stakes but these downs in oklahoma began to die because industry arrived way back when it would have been impossible to know the dimension of destruction they'd be left with or who would be hurt by it back then jobs trumped everything

maybe they still do back then they had no concept of the future but now we are the heirs of our grandparents a mess and here we are about to shoot the porch light out on this town. i mean more times can we strike lead or uranium or oil before there's no more country. and. it will.

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