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  2. Berkeley Pit - Wikipedia

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    The Berkeley Pit is located within the Butte Mine Flooding Operable Unit, a part of the Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Environmental Protection Agency Superfund site. [10] The pit itself was added to the federal Superfund site list in 1987.

  3. List of Superfund sites in Montana - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Superfund sites in Montana designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]

  4. Butte Citizens Technical Environmental Committee - Wikipedia

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    The organization is based in Butte, Montana. The Silver Bow Creek/Butte Superfund Site is part of the largest Superfund complex in the western United States. Situated in the Clark Fork River Basin, the complex stretches approximately 120 miles from the Warm Spring Ponds area near Butte and Anaconda downstream to the Milltown Dam site east of ...

  5. Rechanneling the boom-and-bust history of Butte, Montana - AOL

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    From being the site of one of the world's most productive copper mines, to one of the nation's largest toxic Superfund sites, Butte has turned a corner in its efforts to reverse a century of ...

  6. Silver Bow Creek - Wikipedia

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    This Superfund mega site includes the cities of Butte, Anaconda, Deer Lodge, and Bonner-Milltown (just upriver of Missoula). The contamination extends along a river corridor of 120 miles (190 km) that reaches from Butte to the Milltown Reservoir Superfund Site and includes adjacent areas such as the Anaconda Smelter Stack.

  7. Butte, Montana - Wikipedia

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    Over the course of its history, Butte's mining and smelting operations generated more than $48 billion worth of ore, but also resulted in numerous environmental implications for the city: The upper Clark Fork River, with headwaters at Butte, is the largest Superfund site in the nation, and the city is also home to the Berkeley Pit.

  8. Jury says health clinic in Montana Superfund town submitted ...

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    A federal jury ruled Wednesday that a health clinic in a Montana town where hundreds of people have died from asbestos exposure submitted 337 false asbestos claims that made patients eligible for ...

  9. Category:Superfund sites in Montana - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Superfund sites in Montana" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... Butte Citizens Technical Environmental Committee; L.