How long have folks in the Spokane area been concerned about mining tailings from the Silver Valley?
The Spokesman Review actually talked about the pollution coming out of the Silver Valley in the 1930’s, and they used that word “pollution.” Probably one of the earliest sightings of that word I had ever seen. So people have known about this for 80 years, that it’s really a serious problem, and that high levels of lead and heavy metals have washed down. But they particularly ended up in the Silver Valley, and lower levels, of course, end up here in Spokane every spring. I think the EPA in a way has really fought against all odds to get something started up there. The mining companies certainly bear a lot of responsibility for the contamination here; and a lot of us have felt the state of Idaho didn’t do enough to protect the health of the children and the people who live up there and down here in Spokane. There’s a basin commission tasked with cleaning up and doing what they can to clean up the Superfund site; and I think there have been delays within that Basin Commission. We’re hopin
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