Proposed Appropriation For Department Of Agriculture Communication From The President Of The United States Transmitting A Proposed Appropriation In The Amount Of 15000000 For The Department Of Agriculture For The Fiscal Year 1965 August 14 1964 Referred To The Committee On Appropriations And Ordered To Be Printed

Author : Bradley D. Snow
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 082298279X
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Living with Lead written by Bradley D. Snow and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Coeur d'Alenes, a twenty-five by ten mile portion of the Idaho Panhandle, is home to one of the most productive mining districts in world history. Historically the globe's richest silver district and also one of the nation's biggest lead and zinc producers, the Coeur d'Alenes' legacy also includes environmental pollution on an epic scale. For decades local waters were fouled with tailings from the mining district's more than one hundred mines and mills and the air surrounding Kellogg, Idaho was laced with lead and other toxic heavy metals issuing from the Bunker Hill Company's smelter. The same industrial processes that damaged the environment and harmed human health, however, also provided economic sustenance to thousands of local residents and a string of proud, working-class communities. Living with Leadendeavors to untangle the costs and benefits of a century of mining, milling, and smelting in a small western city and the region that surrounds it.