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mine. would be soon which brightened if you remove the sun moon from france to crash in movies. starts on t.v. dot com. this is our t.v. the main international headlines for you this hour the occupy wall street camp in dallas is the latest victim of a nationwide wave of surprising actions like police rights as the movement gathers itself to rock two mugs since it began. the world ratchets up the pressure on syria's president and the arab league setting a seventy two hour ultimatum to stop the crackdown western nations prepare a new resolution at the u.n. . europe's debt inferno blazes brighter still the single currency continues to
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nosedive for a fourth consecutive day as contagion and banks one of the euro zone's most stable economies. well there were many of us enjoy the high tech gadgets which the world provides is a price to pay certainly for oklahoma with the fragile ecology is being decimated by the drive for vital metals as we reveal next. will rogers once. said well i just don't make my term anymore and we need the lord in kansas for us to be good sturtz what he gave us and we did a terrible job here we better. do nothing about the spent half of the football game picher oklahoma back in one thousand nine hundred it was dark didn't have the. pitcher off.
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so i do nothing really got featured on it it became obvious fairly quickly to me that you know we had a hard percentage of kids it more difficult in the classroom super kids but. we had. we knew we had some problems. with that with the kids out there. kind of hesitates to. delve into. well he is our sound and we want him to be a normal was. just saying anybody else's. problem. passage or you need to come down here and say what what we. said will blow your mind so they run up here and took a bunch of blood samples from. indian children and man i found the high land
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camp that's when it started right there when they would never come in here and check the kids and picture the health department with alcohol but then i started checking in and i found a monster. i don't like. or used. the so we actually went door to door in the mining communities and not time 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 leds so that stand of that was really shocking and the e.p.a.
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came and did. a risk assessment your health risk assessment as well as finally their record cision but they felt like the primary risk freiburg pathway was through dirt and some of the yards tested very high in terms of less toxicity we think about work it's good lead there really to increase risk for some couple of reasons one is a child absorbs more lead through their gut than adult has about fifty percent or so with pediatric lead toxicity because as what we called the gold medal issues it's only importance between zero and six years of age and it affects the developing neurologic system mostly but we consider the softer a larger signs school issues more than 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
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of levels this guy when you tell someone about lead poisoning like this they need an explanation or it's not quite do it and with this much lead waste forty three percent feels like a success it could have been one hundred people don't realize it or creek was declared a disaster they did 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 he thinks the soil that would fix the children. but you can't fix this land where the way sits here you can't leave kids here while you take several decades to move all of it. i thought they could. when they took or the rock out of the ground within that rock there are all of the minerals that are really for lives and 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
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little chips of rock that are left we call it checked but it's tailings it's the tailings from the mines what's left over from the stuff they didn't use their real inviting you don't have to admit myself as an adult and when i first saw the chap i just i just couldn't imagine how it would be the funniest thing in the world to could have fair and roll down them slide down them four wheel down them anything as a child can 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 were used also played on in the wintertime when the snow nozzles on we used to. go to a local salvage yard get a car hood and you never had a good time do you come off one of these trapped wells with some i want to be. in
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a car hood expressway with two or three a board pitch or a car and that's where most of the risk would be because you have so much metals on the surface still surrounding me here. and even more 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'd be off doing so. i mean one time the eagle pitcher mine itself is a quarter mile high she could see from downtown maine miles. you go away and you'd think man there are some really big piles there and litter member the biggest q. just four five six piles right there on pitcher but you keep driving around you know from 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 that you forget about because you're just to work by the big guns the volume here is hard to describe
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people don't realize how minority who's. the champ there there are there he goes but most of that has been living. problem with moving chad and what's left behind is far more dangerous than what they take let's look 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 and lead content about them i feel sometimes higher and light and life content than the gravel people so shape with the word chair that most of the tadpoles you see out there made this course material but then this other stuff grew larger concentrations the metals are in this size of the mine waste of course you can you can imagine that this stuff not come below near as
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much as this stuff so this these fine particles get blown around and they have the highest concentrations of metals then because it's deposited in a residential yard children can ingest it you know it's just a lot more mobile a long time ago residents and pitch trees to come out on sunday and have picnics on the beach they were actually have a picnic song to use this piece find caylee. i had been doing some research about lead poisoning in the effects of the lead poisoning and i was looking through a tiny little publication that compare i had found their exposure to lead between ages seventy and twenty one led to extreme obesity in later life. and i as a high school counselor dealing with young people with eating disorders and with
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youth it had trouble learning al lot of dealings with those kind of camps one particular student stayed out to me and i knew that she'd grown up in quapaw and cherry chat pile on her property her dad had. built her a sandbox. and in a fein he'd taken out that gravel. that he had taken fucking. her know down marmara that somebody. or all a good part would. have made it until. 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 chad piled elevated blood leds that there is only one problem to solve. but this chair just a throw away from one of the largest led strikes on the planet. tries to produce
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thirty five percent of all metals worldwide for over a decade. every one of these problems was struck from the walls and the mines. now we did 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 discovered by leaving cheney for former bush way back all probably around one thousand and four. but he was drilling water wheel on the south west port of commerce. brimful got a hold of you know him and told him get back here and you will see him with. the paper feel strong enough about mikey throw them on the future we all got started it was very wealthiest strong i could have had you. put me on a pattern shot. that's
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a guys it would sit on my foot in the field the only time i was really spirit was when i would you put a stick of dynamite i mean machine me and the guys agree about how this would turn a machine on which it lay old when they turn it on i mean you get it done and i emulate her lead and sheena want to make you kind of flinch a little bit you know i started in the summer of nineteen forty one i was i was sixteen i went service in the. early in forty three and my ship got hit by a kamikaze and. her in forty four and i was discharged and one hundred came back from the navy i went to work on the ground that they had over there were dogs and i was kind of funny because he was he was still pretty much of a policy if he could shelter what door so i went to shovel in
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a hole there to lay by as over here and they had to bring in seven and strength of employees and he'd get five of those a lot of two and i like to kill myself trying to catch up quickly there was a screaming. make him little ones out of big ones with a sledgehammer. in there is a job at times specially when they would go in there and shoot down the roof and they shoot me on the roof it just brings up a lot of crap going on well missions because coloration and things like they actually know. angels or persons who work in the mines the temperature. i like the smell. only skiers we played be able to share some of our mission with the homeless get them share some smell or share your company that will.
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let. everyone know about the trail of tears the cherokee nation. all thirty nine tribes in oklahoma have a trail to restore and a quiet ours to north so some of the cop was originally from the mississippi delta the mouth of the arkansas river mississippi river all the way across southern oklahoma was originally and they were discovered there in seventeen sixty seven by the french and at the time of discovery of zest and the quapaw could feel seven days and more years which put the estimate in a population of about thirty five thousand were caught by the major village of so garp and today they call themselves the old guard. is french perversion of a god. and it will just kind of feel that way so here
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and seven hundred sixty seven smallpox 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 and it's. no longer the tribe i use to be. still not have the right to occupy the whole southern half of arc and saw we need to take that and give them a reservation more fitting to their signs then arnie again rounding them up in eighteen thirty three they made a treaty with the remaining quad to bring it to where they are today when they arrived here and you making thirty five. and when they arrived to this area there was only one hundred thirty five remain out of thirty five thousand
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back in eighty thirties they sent us here from arkansas and they drew a line on a man out the only way we could make water was inside that line so we can't go anywhere else. so the call problems are coming up and running and you know it's eighteen and thirty. and they're drunk 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 where you steve let's go. look and you know cross a river is those high blood. when the big book
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for out across was called the bills. the reason it's called the room is because they got there. and they were working and i would give cross. rowsley they're going home and the devil was marching praying on their own top with the blood and everyone who tried to swim across dreaming. and so they couldn't cross a river and go. cross. because were removed from their original lands and place right here on a reservation inside indian territory seventy years before the war struck oklahoma wasn't even a state back then most of the or was on land so the money come as lease tribal land
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and allotments to start this operation the story about the land is a story about land owners and the stories as much cooperation as it is american and the quapaw story changed forever once the miners sunk that first share. but here brain the move northeast through the snow card and pitcher became the pitcher field that was the boom and there was a huge rush you know. people into that area to start leasing call. and you could buy the secretary of interior would allow a forty acre lease since. they stole land from the tribe to create the town of picher but for the roads and for the town itself and school. they just took the land and this was the largest mining. district in the world
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at one time so all the munitions for war i want a lot of most them for war two on the american side one came from this area so there was a huge incentive to keep the mining go on even at one time the government subsidized the mining thank you 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 the n.p.a. was under a lot of pressure to have these tribal member sign mining leases if you didn't release to the mining companies the i went to congress and had individual tribal members declared incompetent it turns out. most of the confluence were the ones the minds of the new property. quarter board and
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norm and the ones that were competent were the ones that were a quarter bloater less and didn't have mining leases with rare exceptions the government had a lot of band there and what went on out here. is not a county or town or neighborhood it's the country's worst environmental disaster there's a creek that runs through. its forty seven square miles of virgin prairie turned in a permanent wasteland. if they're meant to federal cash talk radio you would know it it's like newton's law every action has an equal and opposite reaction you punch a wall the wall the hole by hank it's broken. beat the hell out of this granite
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here and she came back swinging. and then of course i'm going to clear the superfund site back to nine hundred eighty three so i've been dealing with this for a long time yeah the reason they call it super fund is because congress those side marge amount of money plus they taxed oil companies and chemical companies. to put into this fund a big group with very large amount of money that they called the super fund that was established in the early eighty's to deal with these environmentally contaminated sites where the responsible parties can be located or are not i mean responsibility so the government has to take over these sites and they should clean up and i remember hearing about it being a war superfund site in the country and that was based on the e.p.a. has a model the couple has a great system model h r s model and they changed over the years but at the time the way that model was set up this site scored very high and then the original four
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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 water quality but what they cooperated you know one they came in and they tried to do some guy team x. seven it failed so i'll probably 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 water in equals water and doesn't work that way back here in the mining they had twenty four seventh's to get rid of all the the water that was in the room where the mine for the ok you had tremendous amounts of water that you had to deal with it just wasn't surface water
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causing this problem with ninety's that folks became. let is just children and it was kind of a national trend for the v.a. if they saw it i would think 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 e.p.a. hard the corps of engineers is the prime contractor to come in and do yard clean ups it's pretty simple you go out you dig up some dirt out of the yard you bring in new clean dirt take the top six inches where it's hot what's above it clean up standards if you have some below that in that spot you take the next expenses etc right there a man misspent eighty thousand dollars to redo my yard would. about three feet. be all around my forearms over the banister. the best estimate i've gotten from e.p.a.
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is a little over one hundred thirty million dollars the average cost to remediate yard 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 my office and they tell me what they want to do i said come go with me so we all got my pick and i drove up on a ship and i said the folks think you're going to be able to fix this and one e.p.a. official made the statement to me on top of that check all right over there i'll be able to retire here that's their attitude and 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
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could they have done things differently in the twenty storm the mining boom could they have had managed to the waste differently. probably they could have done a better job of it but thinking about it that time no should we think about it now damn street we did or 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 they 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 quell the 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 the e.p.a. started sniffing around here so to speak that's when the contaminated water stored
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coming up out from the underground. to create yad to pump the water out so you can keep in my system drive it so when you stop that fills up over time they were do you know nor care for that's why they had to continue and may suggest that if there had to stop pumping there within two 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. well so much water coming out here it goes that away stream and goes out that is why there is a legend here that walk this one off and come out somewhere else will grow older or else this election will shed nonwork right here with l. a m. .
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