RobTech
06-30-2009, 01:55 PM
Wearing powder blue pants and a plaid fedora, 84-year-old Orval "Hoppy" Ray arrived fashionably late to a celebration in Picher, Oklahoma, a vacated mining town at the center of one of the nation's largest and most polluted toxic-waste sites.
Former residents, bought out by the government because their town was deemed so dangerous, gathered in Picher's elementary school to say farewell to a place where kids suffered lead poisoning, where homes built atop underground mines plunged into the Earth and where the local creek coughs up orange water, laced with heavy metals.
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/US/06/30/oklahoma.toxic.town/art.picher.street.cnn.jpg
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/30/oklahoma.toxic.town/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
Former residents, bought out by the government because their town was deemed so dangerous, gathered in Picher's elementary school to say farewell to a place where kids suffered lead poisoning, where homes built atop underground mines plunged into the Earth and where the local creek coughs up orange water, laced with heavy metals.
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/US/06/30/oklahoma.toxic.town/art.picher.street.cnn.jpg
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/30/oklahoma.toxic.town/index.html?eref=rss_topstories