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Deep in the heart of Butte: Special report – EPA resists calls to remove mine waste in the center of Butte
July 19, 2015/
Below the center of Butte flows water tainted with poisons drawn from a mass of mining and smelting waste that has been a pollution problem for more than a century.
The deadly bright-blue plume "is the most contaminated mine water in the state of Montana," hydrogeologist Joe Griffin says.
No one argues that point. But a raging dispute centers on what to do about it — and about the tailings from the Parrot mine and smelter that are feeding the deadly brew of metals-laced water.
Susan Dunlap [email protected]
