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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.
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.
The area is downstream from the Tar Creek Superfund Site, […] WYANDOTTE, Okla. — The Eastern Shawnee Tribe is celebrating a multi-agency effort to restore a creek that runs through their land ...
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 event focuses on the ongoing environmental challenges faced at the Tar Creek Superfund Site from historic lead and zinc mining. Local Environmental Action Demanded, or LEAD Agency, hosts the
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.
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 ...
List of Superfund sites in Oklahoma; T. Tar Creek Superfund site; Tinker Air Force Base This page was last edited on 7 June 2018, at 02:50 (UTC). Text ...