Welcome to Our Town. Wish We Weren’t Here.
source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/us/14kansas.html?no_interstitial
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"For most of the early part of the 20th century, this little city in the southeast corner of Kansas had the feel of a rollicking boom town, its prosperity coming from land rich in lead, zinc and iron ore.
But when the last of the mines closed in the 1970s, Treece was left sitting in a toxic waste dump of lead-tinged dust, contaminated soil and sinkholes. On a hot summer day, children can be seen riding their bikes around enormous mounds of chat — pulverized rock laced with lead and iron. It is the waste product left over from mining that is the cause of so many problems here. Uncontrolled, it blows in the wind."
Read more at the link.
Why won't the Government just buy them out? It's clear the town has been on it's last legs for decades.
But when the last of the mines closed in the 1970s, Treece was left sitting in a toxic waste dump of lead-tinged dust, contaminated soil and sinkholes. On a hot summer day, children can be seen riding their bikes around enormous mounds of chat — pulverized rock laced with lead and iron. It is the waste product left over from mining that is the cause of so many problems here. Uncontrolled, it blows in the wind."
Read more at the link.
Why won't the Government just buy them out? It's clear the town has been on it's last legs for decades.
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MotherForTruth
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This seems to be the American way... Take over get all that brings profit with disregard to distraction and live destroyed lives behind.
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hollyMiamiFla
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So sad.
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Rickharmon25
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This is terrible. I hope that somehing can be done about this. When people of Treece become sick and are dying will they listen then?
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Rickharmon25
