Thursday, July 24, 2008

Oklahoma residents find life after Tar Creek

July 20, 2008 -

It's been three years since Marlus Kimbrough took advantage of a state-sponsored buyout for families who lived near the Tar Creek Superfund site in Ottawa County in far northeastern Oklahoma.

Now, Kimbrough and her children have a new life far away from their former home in Picher, a former mining town polluted by towering piles of gravel and abandoned lead mines.

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