Continuing with MT history, I forgot to mention that we've also got the country's largest Superfund site, and it's so big that to call it a "site" doesn't do it justice. It's more of a Superfund superhighway, encompassing 120 miles of the Clark Fork River from the 19th Century mining boomtown of Butte to Milltown Dam in Missoula.
I didn't know that, but the rumors are that upstream in Butte, the site includes the infamous Berkeley Pit, a 1.5 square mile, 1,780-foot-deep, 30 billion-gallon open pit lake that's not so slowly filling with poisoned groundwater seeping through a century's worth of abandoned mines. The pit is perhaps best known for a 1995 incident in which a flock of some 350 snow geese landed on the surface of the highly acidic pond and promptly died. More recently, the pit has become subject to a scheme to transform the toxic contents into, wait for it municipal drinking water.
Well, now we have to wait I don't know how many years and see it, if is going to happen or not!
I hope they clean the water before!
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