tar creek is not a county or town or neighborhood it's the country's worst environmental disaster after the creek that runs through. it's forty seven square miles of virgin prairie turned in a permanent wasteland. if they're meant to federal cash tar creek you would know what. it's like newton's law every action has an equal and opposite reaction. you punch a wall the wall gets home or 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 the super fund is because congress so side barge amount of money plus they taxed oil companies and chemical companies. to put into this fund. grew to a pretty large amount of money that they called the super fund it was established in the early eighty's to deal with these environmentally contaminated sites where the responsible parties can be located or are not claiming responsibility so the government has to take over these sites and they should cle

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. well i thought they could. when they took or the rock out of the ground within that rock there are all of the minerals are really 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 left we call it chat well 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 have to admit myself as an adult and when i first saw a chap piles i just said i just couldn't imagine how it wouldn't be the funniest thing in the world ticket

that was causing oxidation of the mantle which in turn creates basically sulfur so here you have tar creek which starts up in kansas runs through the mining belt becomes contaminated at douthat which is just south of picher it then rooms on the east side of commerce runs through the center of my own into in the osho river on into green light let's just say it's been doing that since eighty three nothing but orange yucky smelly containment. this watershed has been clocking five million gallons a day since there have been clocks. and if water rolls into the mines or slides off the chap pilot flows out from the underground it's real bad news. isaac newton says the reaction to the mining is a lifetime of polluted water. and this mine system swallows any groundwater hole and then coughs up orange blood. and he look at these problems and say this has been here for a long time. it's not just twenty five years in superfund it's it's since money. and we all benefited from that money either directly or indirectly. it was a good thing for the united states but this is the legacy. kind of a obligation