British Petroleum subsidiary Atlantic Richfield (BP-ARCO) has provided a new website with information and data about the cleanup of the Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit. The purpose of the site is to provide current data to the public, including data…

Near the town of Opportunity, this area long served as a tailings dump for the Anaconda smelters. Processed mine waste (tailings) from the smelters was mixed with water (slurried) and pumped to the site. The Waste Repository has not truly…

The simple answer is that the responsible party pays for the cleanup. If the responsible party no longer exists, cannot be determined, or is unable to fund the cleanup, Superfund Trust fund money is used to complete the cleanup. However,…

History From the discovery of gold on Silver Bow Creek west of Butte in the 1860s, the Clark Fork River and surrounding ecosystems of western Montana have been heavily impacted by mining and smelting. With the discovery of gold and…