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  2. Navajoe, Oklahoma - Wikipedia

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    Also in 1887, the town received a post office designated as "Navajoe" to avoid confusion with Navajo, Arizona. In that same year, a Baptist church was organized, the first Protestant church in what would become Oklahoma Territory. [6] In 1888, Navajoe School opened. [7] [8] Soon, more than 200 families had settled in and around Navajoe.

  3. Colorado River Storage Project - Wikipedia

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    The Navajo Unit consists of the Navajo Dam and the Navajo Lake reservoir. The dam impounds the San Juan River near Farmington, New Mexico. The dam was completed in 1963, and was actually the first of the units in the project to be completed. Unlike the subsequent dams, Navajo Dam did not have any power generating capacity when built.

  4. National Mine Map Repository - Wikipedia

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    The repository is constantly seeking donations of mine maps to add to the microfilm/digital collection. [12] When maps are received from a donor, they are scanned and stored in both microfilm and digital archives. The maps, along with a scanned images (upon request), are returned to the donor. The repository does not retain hard copies of maps.

  5. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement

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    OSM Regional Structure Map. The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) is a branch of the United States Department of the Interior.It is the federal agency entrusted with the implementation and enforcement of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA), which attached a per-ton fee to all extracted coal in order to fund an interest-accruing trust to be ...

  6. Tar Creek Superfund site - Wikipedia

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    The Oklahoma Plan for Tar Creek has listed four main objectives in the process: improving surface water quality, reducing exposure to lead dust, attenuating mine hazards, and land reclamation. [8] The University of Oklahoma's Department of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science has implemented a 1.2 million dollar passive water treatment ...

  7. Black Mesa Peabody Coal controversy - Wikipedia

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    The company pumped water from the underground Navajo Aquifer for washing coal, and, until 2005, in a slurry pipeline operation to transport extracted coal 273 mi (439 km) to the Mohave Generating Station in Laughlin, Nevada. With the pipeline operating, Peabody pumped an average of 3 million gallons of water from the Navajo Aquifer every day. [3]

  8. Why Oklahoma Native Americans are opposing a nickel ... - AOL

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  9. Kerr-McGee - Wikipedia

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    Quivira got the Ambrosia Lake, NM mine, [25] while Sequoyah Fuels took over the Sequoyah plant in Gore, OK, as well as the Cimarron plant in Crescent, OK. Sequoyah was sold to General Atomics in 1988. [38] and Quivira was sold to Rio Algom in 1989. [39] [26] [40] The Cimarron Corporation was a subdivision that took control of the Cimarron plant ...