August 20, 2007 - Dewey-Humboldt is a small town with a big problem.
On a hill overlooking Western storefronts and modest homes about 15 miles east of Prescott is a 4 million-ton pile of mine tailings, a toxic relic of the town's mining past.
Just a few hundred yards away, across Arizona 69, is a rusting smokestack and an oily, black mountain of slag, the waste product of a long-defunct smelter.
Together, the area surrounding the decades-old piles is the first Arizona site in nearly a decade that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants placed on the Superfund list, the federal cleanup program reserved for the country's worst environmental hazards.
Dewey-Humboldt's 4,000 residents are divided on whether a Superfund listing would be a blessing or a bane.
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Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste Material are issues families all across America are afflicted with daily.
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