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Upstream from Grand Lake is the Tar Creek Superfund site, an abandoned lead and zinc mining operation that left behind toxic heavy metals, pictured in 2008 near Picher.
Tar Creek Superfund site is a United States Superfund site, declared in 1983, located in the cities of Picher, Douthat and Cardin, Ottawa County, in northeastern Oklahoma. From 1900 to the 1960s lead mining and zinc mining companies left behind huge open chat piles that were heavily contaminated by these metals, cadmium , and others.
This is a list of Superfund sites in Oklahoma designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
Now it's in the middle of what’s known as the Tar Creek Superfund Site. Barker’s family has a history here. His great-grandfather, Victor Griffin, was the chief of the tribe at the height of ...
Tar Creek is a 2009 feature-length environmental documentary about the Tar Creek Superfund Site, which at one time was considered the worst environmental disaster in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was directed by Matt Myers, who also wrote the film's script and served as its narrator.
Apr. 14—MIAMI, Okla. — A creek that flows orange through a former lead and zinc mining site recently made the top 10 list of "America's Most Endangered Rivers" in 2021, despite more than $300 ...
On September 17, 2019, the EPA, in cooperation with the state of Oklahoma and the Quapaw Nation, released the Final Tar Creek Strategic Plan to advance the cleanup of the Tar Creek Superfund site. The EPA indicated while great progress had been made, much work was yet to be done, and the Plan was a commitment to accelerate the cleanup.
The Trump administration has built up the biggest backlog of unfunded toxic Superfund clean-up projects in at least 15 years, nearly triple the number that were stalled for lack of money in the ...