zinc in the world. The metals that were found in 1914, were used for the increased requirements of munitions in the First World War.
Created hundreds of mines and thousands of people worked down the ground for the company Pitcher. The town of Pitcher, along with the nearby towns of Cardin and Treece in Kansas αναπτÏχθεικαν from one day to the next.
At their peak the mines in the town of Pitcher “were used in nearly 5,000 tons of crude ore per day. They could crush the ore into fine grains while the melt into a giant smelter that could filter out the impurities.
The waste residues, contaminated with toxic metals, piled out of the mines, and had created a ridge of 7,000 acres that it contained 70 million tons of waste, and 36 million tons of sand and mud. This fine-grained had been scattered across the city causing people to breathe. When it rained, the runoff from the piles, go into the local water supply.
In the 1980s, the government started a cleaning business to do, and again the Pitcher sustainable but even in the mid – ’90s, nearly two-thirds of the city’s children still suffer from lead poisoning.
In 2006, a company discovered that the city was facing a serious problem of huge gaps that were created under the soil of the mines, and could collapse at any moment. On the basis of this report, the government gave the final verdict: The town of Pitcher must be emptied.
The final blow came in 2008, when a tornado destroyed the entire town, killing eight people and causing extensive damage. The reconstruction of the town of Pitcher was a big question. The only option that was left was to abandon it.
The toxic ghost town of Pitcher
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