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u.s. failed to stop the movement from gearing up to shut down. next part one of our special report about how the relentless pursuit of metal production is poisoning parts of oklahoma causing a potential environmental disaster. will rogers once they have somebody asking about why and they said well i just don't make much of anymore and we need the lord in plans for us to be good stewards what they gave us and we did a terrible job here we. knew nothing about it i'd spent half of the football game picture obama back in one thousand nine hundred four it was dark didn't have the option to appreciate the scene in the picture offered with the check piles so i do nothing really about

picture at all it became obvious fairly quickly to me that you know we had a higher percentage of kids insured more difficulty in the classroom. super kids but. they had an extra we knew we had some problems. with the kids. kind of as they. bend towards not. well he is our son and we want him to be normal. as anybody else's kids. he has problems past at all you need to come down here and see what we got says or blow your mind so they ran a parent took a bunch of blood samples from the squad indian children and man i found high

layered can't sets when it started grab there that say they would never come in here and check it kids in the picture. would help a home but then i started checkin and i found a monster. no light. oil. and so we actually went door to door in the mining communities and knocks on to wars 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 let's settle the extent of that was really shocking and you create came in did. a risk assessment your health risk assessment as well as

finally did a record decision and they felt like the primary risk for freiburg pathway was through dirt and some of the yards tested very high in terms of less toxicity we think about work kids good lead there really to increase risk for a start a couple of reasons one as a child absorbs more lead through their gut than i told us about fifty percent more but with cadia trick lead toxicity because it's what we call developmental issues it's only importance between zero and six years of age and it affects the coping neurologic system rosalee but we can certainly softer logic science school issues or the medical issues so that's really the difference the trouble is you can't ever make that go away once it 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 high when you tell someone about lead poisoning like this they need

an explanation words not what they would do with this much lead waste forty three percent feels like a success and it could have been one hundred people don't realize the tar creek was declared a disaster a decade before they even discovered the lead poisoning but they checked 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 think of the soil that would fix the children. but you can't fix this land with the ways it's here you can't leave kids here while you take several decades to move all of. the good. when they took or the rock out of the ground within that rock there are all the minerals that are really cared me and 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 left we call it chapped well it's tail that's the tailings from the 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 the chap piles i just i just couldn't imagine how it wouldn't be the funniest thing in the world ticket have fair and rolled down them slide down them four wheel down them anything as a child kids their mansion looking at something that looks like a gigantic sand pile and be told no you can't go out there i can't imagine that we used also play on in the wintertime when the snow on ice was on we used. go to a local salvage yard and get a car hood and you never had a good time to you come off one of these. small when i was with the. in a car hood experience the with two or three aboard picture

a car that's where most of their risk would be because you have so much that also on the surface still surrounding it. and even if only yards clean it on a little kid you'd be hard pressed to keep me from playing out some of those areas at least you know i'd be off doing something. i mean one time the eagle pitcher mine itself is a quarter mile high you can see from downtown the mile. you go way you need think man there are some really big piles there and you'd remember the biggest q. just four five six pounds right there in 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 tiles the size of a house that i forget about or the size of an office building that you forget about because you're just dwarfed by the big ones. the volume here is hard to describe

people don't realize how minute it is. the chance to put her through their humongous but most of it is the way. problem with moving chair in that 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 bioavailable which means that they can be absorbed easier by the stomach and secondly they're also much higher in lead content about a thousand times higher in lead and lead content than the gravel people so shape with the word chair most of the chat you see out there made this course material but then there's others who grew up north for concentrations of metals or in the size of the mine waste or so you can you can imagine that this stuff's 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 gets deposited in a residential yard children can ingest it you know it's just a lot more mobile on long time ago residents and petrie's to come out on sunday and have picnics on the beach they were actually have a picnic song use this piece find caylee. had been doing three things and she had that lead poisoning i mean they think through i think. i was looking through a tiny little publication you can see that had found their exposure to lead between ages seventy twenty when led to extreme obesity in later life. and i as a high school counselor dealing with young people with eating disorders and more with youth that have trouble burning held a lot of dealings with those kind of cancer in one particular student studio to me

and i knew that she'd grown up in krakow and chatted to prowl on her property heard their hair down and built her a sandbox. and in a faint he'd taken out the gravel but he had taken a flying. are no doubt are hard but somebody knew. what layard could probably do to your. maiden film about. this much chat the kids do in are they stand a chance. and i wish i could say that all the problems begin and end with chad piles and elevated blood leds and that there is only one problem to solve. this jazz just a throw away from one of the largest led strikes on the planet. tri-state produced thirty five percent of all metals worldwide for over a decade. every one of these problems was struck from the walls in the mines. now

we didn't need this metal during the wars. so the government kept these mines home . remember that iraq i was talking about. yeah this is where those ripples start. my grandfather he was swarmed the sky over limply homers way back lol probably around one thousand and four but they were drilled in the waterway or on the shelf where support of commerce. paul got a hold of him and told him to back you are the been here for me to get your real song out about michael twelve and on the future we all got started it was very wealthiest strong it had here they put me on a pattern shopping. powder monkeys that's the guys and loads of dynamite and in the real only time i was really spirit was when i would

get that stick of dynamite i mean i'm machine man the guy isn't real but with her neck machine on and you're going to play old when they turn down on them i mean you get it done tonight and then later in that machine or want to kind of flinch 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 hundred came back from the navy i went to work and ground combat over to the knobs and it's kind of funny because he was he was still very much of a policy could he get shell that dirt so i want to show over and over there the lay by was over here and they'd bring in seven and strength of empties and he'd get

five of those who i was getting to and all i could kill myself trying to catch up with he. was a screaming. may come little ones out of big ones and his legs hammer. fat is a job at times especially when they would go in there and shoot down the roof. issue to move it just brings a lot of her up on the reasons goodness coercion and things like that to know. he grows on oppression and the mileage the temperature. i like the smell. when we miss kids we play going to share some of our mission will always continue to share some sailor share here coming up with.

everyone else about the trail of tears of the cherokee nation. all thirty nine tribes in oklahoma have a true story because some north. of the pop was originally from the mississippi delta the mouth of the arkansas river just a second river all the way across southern oklahoma was originally hails they were discovered there in seventeen sixty seven by the french and at the time of discovery of system a the us could feel servando in some more years which put the estimate in a population of about thirty five thousand caught on a major village and was so got up and today they call themselves of god. is france perversion of a god. you know just kind of fell that way so here and seventeen sixty seven smallpox plague hits the try and

begins to wipe them out and you can read it in the record in the congressional record i've read it is says that the cost of us are no longer tribal use to be. as the 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 size then the army began rounding them up. in eighteen thirty three they made a treaty with the remaining quapaw to bring them to where they are today when they arrived here and i mean eight hundred thirty five and when they arrived to this area it was only one hundred thirty five remained out of thirty five thousand that had eighty thirty's they sent us here from arkansas and they drew a line on

a map and the only way we could dig was inside at one so we can't go anywhere also . so the call problems are coming up and why didn't you say two hundred thirty five. and they were dropped off you know 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 it's those are kind of. looking you know cross the river is the most high blood. and. big. bluff are out across it's called the. reason it's called the girls

from on this because they got there and they were working on how to get across the rest of their way. home. but the devil was marching praying up and down the top of the blood and everyone he tried to swim across and drown him so they couldn't cross a river is a double. cross. the corporals were removed from their original lands in 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 land so the mining companies lease tribal land and allotments to start this operation a story about land is a story about land owners in the stories as much as it is american. quapaw

story changed forever once the miners something for share. the here and huge brain that will move ne through with snow card and pitcher it became the pitcher field that was the boom and there was a huge rush you know for people into that area to start leasing. and you could buy the secretary of interior a lot forty acre leases. they stole from the tribe to create the town of picher but for the roads and for the town itself the school kind of thing. they just took the room this was the largest mining. district in the world at one time so all the munitions for war i wanted

a lot of the most time for war through on the american side were came from vests. so there was a huge incentive to keep the mining even at one time the government subsidized the mining. because it was a strategic mineral the catch him. law was that if the secretary of interior found any of the indians to be incompetent then the secretary of interior would manage the release. so that it could be yeah i was under a lot of pressure to have these tribal members sign mining leases. if you didn't release to the mining companies the i went to congress and had individual tribal members declared incompetent. turns out. most of the company. property and a quarter border more in the ones that were competent were the ones that were

a quarter blood or less and didn't have mining leases with rare exceptions where the very remote had a lot of hand in and what went on out here. is not a county or town or neighborhood it's the country's worst environmental disaster then after the creek that runs through it it's forty seven square miles of virgin prairie turned into permanent waste land. there i'm into federal cash tar creek you would know it it's like newton's law every action has an equal and opposite reaction. you punch a wall to wall this hole or you hang it broken. beat the hell out of this grand here and she came back. of course we were cleared to superfund site back in

nineteen eighty three so we've been dealing with this for a long time now the reason they call it super fun is because congress so side barge amount of money plus they taxed oil companies and chemical companies. to put into this pond. any large amount of money that they called the super fund it was established in the early eighty's to deal with these environmentally parent it's sites where the responsible parties can be located or are not claiming responsibility so the government has to take over the sites and initiate the cleanup and i remember hearing about you know more superfund site in the country and that was based on e.p.a. has a model dakota 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 odd sites that were added to the national priorities list this was the top scoring site

and once we were declared 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 the water quality or the cooperating you know one they came in and they tried to do some guy team stuff and it failed so we get one was trying to solve the surface water impacts from the from the contaminated mine water being discharged but how much is . about eight million dollars their theory was motor equals water and doesn't work that way but you're in the mine and they had twenty four seventh's to get rid of all of the water that was in the room where the mine for located you had tremendous amounts of water that you could deal with it just wasn't surface water causing this problem that ninety's the folks came. let issues of children and it

was kind of a national trend for the e.p.a. if they saw a way about levels 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 e.p.a. hard to corps of engineers is the prime contractor to come in and do your clean house 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 it 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 and cetera again and now it's been eight dollars to redo my yard. about three feet. deep all around. all the damage all. 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 ny i believe it was ninety five i had some e.p.a. officials kind of office and they told me what i wanted to do i said come go with me so we all got not pick up and i drove up on a chip and i said you folks think you're going to be able to fix this and one e.p.a. official made a statement to me on top of it yep all right over there i'll be able to retire here that's their attitude. it's not about what's best for these 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 story the mining boom could they

have had managed the the waste differently. probably i could have done a better job of it when i think about it that's. you know should we think about it now damn straight we better think about. yeah the chance bad the grounds bad lead poisoning is high but the reason the e.p.a. came here on day one called this their worst was the water. since the mines closed that filled up with water so bad nothing can live. in the water the pours out the mines is no better back in their day to quote die trying to cross the river to get to their new home is some mean water out here. ninety seven nine was actually from what i can remember about the first time the e.p.a. . started sniffing around here so to speak that's when the contaminated water stored coming out from the underground. creek yet to pump the water out so you can keep

the my system dry him so when you start that fills up over time they were do you know nor care for and that's why they have to continue pumping and they suggested that a failure of the stock opened fire within ten years mine water would surface and kill all the fish and. that was ignored. when the water is running is where most of the water comes out is right here there are so many so much water coming out here it goes that away oh stream and goes out that a wider selection here had walked this mall to come out somewhere else and drill holders on m r l's this is actual check nine work right here the spelling.

twenty years ago in the largest country. so too crazy to. have been able. to speak any german. where did it take.

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