as his father served as top of the marine essential bank and i suspect a while to have on sweaters to cut off a commercial well sublimer the response. was the competency it takes new toys to. say the regime has pulled its forces back from flashpoint position strongholds as demanded in the peace plan i thought when i say shortfalls that's a sniper says still shooting at protesters killing at least one hundred fifty people since tuesday. as the headlines up next the story of a catastrophic environmental disaster now a special report talk reak will rogers once they have somebody asking about ram they said well i just don't make much of anymore and we need the lord intends for us to be good stewards of what he gave us and we did a terrible job here we did a terrible job. knew

nothing about pitcher i'd spent half of the football game picher oklahoma back in one thousand nine hundred four it was dark didn't have the opportunity pre-shared the scenic view that the pitcher offers with the chip pounds 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 that had more difficulty in the classroom super kids but . they had. we knew we had some problems. with that with the kids out there. kind of hesitate to you know they'll bend target. well here's our sound. we want him to be a normal. person anybody else would give you a. good problem. and i said oh you need to come down here and see what

what we. said will blow your mind so they run appear and took a bunch of blood samples from the indian children and man i found high lead can that's when it started right there when mclean they would never come in here and check the kids and picture the health department would call home but then i started checking in and i found a monster. oh i. don't know why i. always used 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 in the 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. came in did. a risk assessment human health risk assessment as well as finally did a record decision and they felt like the primary risk or primary pathway was through dirt and some of the yard's tested very high in terms of less toxicity when you think about work kids good lead there really to increase risk for such a couple of reasons one is a child absorbed for lead through the gut then an adult does about fifty percent more but with pediatric lead toxicity because what we call developmental issues it's only importance between zero and six years of age and it affects the developing neurologic system mostly what we consider the soft neurologic 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 per minute. how does a place get this bad some old cities are covered with lead paint that you don't hear of levels this high when you tell someone about a lead poisoning like this they need an explanation but words don't 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 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 fix the soil that would fix the children . but you can't fix this land where the waste sits here. and you can't leave kids here while you take several decades to move all of it. well 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 lead zinc cadmium everything else and they would crush it break it smelt it to get the minerals out to get the metals out in them the little chips of rock that are left we call chat well it's tail it'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 when i first saw the chap piles i just saw i just couldn't imagine how it wouldn't be the funniest thing in the world ticket up there and roll down the slide down them four wheeled 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 play in the wintertime when the snow and ice is on we used to. go

to a local salvage yard and get a car hood and you never have a good time to you come off one of these poles with snow and ice with the. in a car hood experience they with two or three aboard pitching car that's where most of their risk would be because you have so much metals on the surface still surrounding the area. and even if you aren't clean if i'm a little kid you'd be hard pressed to keep me from playing out in some of those areas at least you know i'd be off doing something. i mean one time the eagle put your mind itself is a quarter mile high she could see it from downtown many miles home. you'd go away and you'd think man there are some really big piles there and you'd remember the biggest q. just four five six piles right there on pitcher but you keep driving around you know for miles and you forget oh yeah there's chet bases 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 dwarfed by the big ones. the volume here is hard to describe people don't realize how minute it is. the champ that are. there humongous but most of that is being held right. oh problem with moving chad 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 and lead content 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. larger concentrations of mandals or in this size of the mine waste of course 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 the bigots deposit in a residential yard children can ingest it you know it's just a lot more mobile home long time ago residents of picher used to come out on sunday and have picnics on the beach they were actually have been picnics on to use this feast find tailings. i had been doing some research about lead poisoning in the effects on lead poisoning and i was looking through a tiny little publication that comes their head found their exposure to lead between ages seven 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 or with youth that have trouble learning how lot of dealings with those kind of camps and one particular students today out to me and i knew that she'd grown up in quapaw and chatted to pile on her property her dad had there i built her a sandbox. and in there saying he'd take it not that gravel. but he had taken funding. there are no doubt in my mind that somebody. what lead could possibly do to your health. and they didn'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 that there is only one problem that's off. but this chair just a throw away from one of the largest lead strikes on the planet. tri state produce 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 did need this metal during the wars. so the government kept these mines home and . a couple of more remember the iraq i was talking about. yeah this is where those ripples start. my grandfather he was a warm discovered late in chief palmer way back old probably around one thousand and four. but they was drilling the water wheel on the south west port of commerce. grandpa got a hold of him and told him get back here the day you saw the. picture feel strong enough about nine hundred twelve am on the pitch or field got started it was very

wealthy a straw that they had had here they put me on a pattern job. to powder monkeys that's a guys that loads of dynamite into the drill holes the only time i was really scared was when i would hit that stick of dynamite in the m. machine me and the guys that drilled the hole would turn and shino on to me it was really lay out when they turned it on i mean you hit that dynamite and then later that machine i want to meet you kind of flinch a little bit you know i started in the summer night teen forty one i was i was sixteen i went to service and i. 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 on the ground with my dad over door knobs and it was kind of funny because he was he was still pretty much of a horse he could he could shelter what dirt so i went to shovel in a hole there to lay by as over here and they had to bring in seven cans strang of empties and he'd get five of those while i was getting to and i like to kill myself trying to catch up with him i was a scream. making little ones out of big ones with his legs hammer. in their fat is a job at times especially when they would go in there and shoot down the roof when they shoot down the roof it just brings out a lot of run down the reasons biggest cars things like their chin no. grows on a person to work in the mines the temperature that i like to smale. with me as kids we played remember share st thomas in the well you've always gotten your share

of some smaller share that you're coming out with. everyone knows about the trail of tears the cherokee nation. all thirty nine tribes in oklahoma have a trail of tears story because there are no exception 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 the discovery of system made that the quapaw could feel seven to eight thousand more years which put the estimate in a population of about thirty five thousand kuapa the major village was so gop and

today they call themselves the gop and. is france perversion and. you know just kind of fell that way so here in seven hundred sixty seven a smallpox playing 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 it says that the coffee house are no longer the tribe they used to be. as do not have the right to occupy the whole southern half of arkansas and we need to take that and give them a reservation more fitting to their size then the army began rounding them up in eight hundred thirty three they made a treaty with the remaining quapaw was to bring in to where they are today in a arrived here in eight hundred thirty five and when they arrived to this area

there was only one hundred and thirty five remaining out of thirty five thousand back in eighty thirties they sent us here from arkansas and they drew a line on a map and the only way we could big was inside that line so we can't go anywhere else. so the call causer coming up and running and you know it's eighteen thirty five. and there dropped 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 plur. lookin you know

across the river is those hard blows. in the big bluff right occur is called the devil's. the reason it's called from is because they got there and they were working on how to get across the rest of there and when home and the devil was marching praying open down top of the blood and everyone who tried to swim across drown. so they couldn't cross the river the. cross. the quapaw is were moved 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 land so the mining companies lease tribal land and allotments to start this operation the story about land is a story about land owners and the stories as much as it is american. and the quapaw story changed forever once the miners sunk that far scheft. they hit a huge vein that moved northeast through put snow card and pitcher that became the pitcher field that was the boom and there was a huge rush you know of people into that area to start leasing quapaw line and you could buy the secretary of interior would allow forty acre leases. they stole land from the quapaw tribe to create the town of picher but for the roads

and for the town itself the school of the kind of thing they took they just took the land and this was the largest lead mining. district in the world at one time so all the munitions for war i wanted a lot of most em for war two on the american side one came from vests. so there was a huge incentive to keep the mining go on even at one time the government subsidized the mining to keep because it was a strategic mineral the catch in the law was that if the secretary of interior found any of the indians to be incompetent then the secretary of interior would manage their lease. so that the b.s.a. was under a lot of pressure to have these tribal member sign mining leases if you didn't lease to the mining companies the i went to congress and had individual tribal

members declared incompetent it turns out. most of the confluence where the world mines on your property and your quarter boarder norm and the ones that were deemed competent were the words that were quarter bloater less then didn't have mining leases with rare exception the government had a lot to hand in and what went on out here. tar creek is not a county or town or neighborhood it's the country's worst environmental disaster after the creek that runs through. its forty seven square miles of virgin prairie turned in a permanent wasteland. there are meant a federal cash talkradio you would know it it's like news all every action has an

equal and opposite reaction. you punch a wall the wall gets a hole where you hang it's broken. he's beat the hell out of this grand here and she came back swinging. and then of course we were declared a superfund site back in one thousand nine hundred three so we've been dealing with this for a long time yeah the reason they call it super fun is because congress that aside barge amount of money plus they taxed oil companies and chemical companies. to put into this fund and they grew to put in large amounts 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 you know can't 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 it being the worst

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 odd 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 know bees don't bounce back from the initial part of our focus was on water quality or what they call operating you know one that came in and they tried to do some guy kenan seven a failed so operable unit 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 in equals water and doesn't work that way back during the mining they had to pump twenty four seventh's to get rid of all

of the water that was in the boot off or were in 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 in mid ninety's the focus became less issues of children and it was kind of a national trend for the e.p.a. if they saw it at levels they moved 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 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 clean dirt 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 gayman those been eight thousand dollars to redo my yard.

about three feet. the all around ma for. 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 a yard by the e.p.a. was seventy thousand dollars per house in not believe it was ninety five i had some e.p.a. officials come to moffat us and they told me what they wanted to do i said come go with me so we all got my pick and i drove them 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 the statement to me on top of that ship 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 tons of contaminants across the street could they have done things differently in the twenty storm the mining boom could they have had managed the the waste differently. probably they could've done a better job of it but i think about it that time no should we think about it now damn straight we better think about. yeah that's that's bad the grounds bad but boy things are 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. the water the pours out the mines is no better. back in their day the quapaw died trying to cross the river to get to their new home is simeon 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 started coming up from the underground mine the creek yad to pump the water out so you could keep the much system dry in so when you stop that fills up over time so they were do you know nor care for that's why we had to continue pumping and they suggested that if they ever had to stop pumping they're within ten years mine water would surface and kill all the fish in turkey that was ignored. when the water is running is where most of the water comes out is right here there are so many you know so much water coming out here it goes that away. and goes out that is why they're so lucky in here that walk this one off and come out somewhere else and girl hold or something else. this is the actual mine work right here. that

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