Picher Oklahoma,Picher is a city in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, USA. There was once a center of lead and zinc. The population was 1,640 at the 2000 census. The findings of soil contamination and the possibility of a cave beneath the city were nearly all its inhabitants to evacuate Picher and Cardin the nearby town of mercury is rising suit.The, Roberts reports uprooted a mailbox, based on the gorilla's cage and the truck with a team of restaurant. Up and down the street, the windows are boarded up, dark.Mounds empty white sand and debris called cat machine mining town, 200 meters high. Roberts takes his clipboard.Let, the AM to do that, "said
. We do not have anyone to sell food, the co-owner Gary Cox, 69, says Roberts, because it continues throughout the room. Roberts take a few notes in his notebook, and Cox, AM sister and business partner, Joyce, 75, shakes his head and tears. The two grew up here, "he said, and never get sick. Now feel compelled out.Hey you want to buy land very cheap, I know where Äôll probably be able to reach agreement on any surface serious. In case of Picher, Oklahoma. Talk to the mayor of the whole city is being demolished Simpleton.The cause lead contamination .. all squares and land just below their feet is an important part of lead balls of the United States and the two World Wars II and sufficient zinc in the literal sense, strengthen the construction of the American suburbs.
These raw materials are used to create a solid metal alloy and water resistant, better batteries, and dietary supplements, basic material of modern society. Population reached 14,000 in 1926. When I was dry in 1970, mining companies have left. Picher residents eventually become a Superfund site.Most left, the school closed, the city government was dissolved and this week almost all commercial buildings in Picher, Oklahoma, was denied a Demolished. Linderman federal procurement, who said Picher a Superfund site in 1981 and bought about 900 homeowners and businesses.
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