News Oklahoma's Cathy Tatom reported on efforts to clean up the Tar Creek Superfund site in Ottawa Co. Cleanup is still estimated to be 50 years away from complete.

After a briefing, the team toured three of four mine shafts in the Picher area that investigators ... a special agent of Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. The experts from the federal ...

Even getting into Picher, Oklahoma, is not easy ... meant the groundwater was no longer being pumped out of the mine shafts and away from the hazardous substances. Eventually, the groundwater ...

PICHER, Okla. — The Tulsa Police Department dive team Tuesday lowered a camera down an old Acme Mine shaft in Picher in the latest of ongoing efforts to find the remains of two Oklahoma girls ...

Undercut with mine shafts and buried under bleak, gray mountains of lead waste, this Oklahoma town is in the ... 20,000 around World War II. Already, Picher is getting down to a hard core of ...

Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma. After a briefing Tuesday, the team toured three of four mine shafts in the Picher area that investigators think could be the most likely locations where the girls ...

A mine shaft lies just on the south side of her driveway, 15 feet from her shotgun house in Cardin, a spit away from Picher. When the tremors come, it sounds like a dynamite blast and shakes windows.

“I first visited Picher in 2008, shortly after the tornado ... And another. It belched from a mine shaft and gushed out of an old cave-in. It splashed down ditches and gullies and into ...

Picher was the name of an Oklahoma town in Ottawa County ... Millions of tons of improperly discarded mining waste and abandoned mine shafts created an environmental disaster over time.

this Oklahoma town was poisoned by the industry that once made it thrive. Dangerously undermined by catacombs of mining shafts beneath its streets, the buildings of Picher began crumbling ...

Lead and zinc or are still produced in quantity in northeastern Oklahoma. Here is a yard at the Eagle-Picher Mining and Smelting Co. Central Mill in the center of Picher. (Original photo has no ...