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March 27, 2008

Workers remove trainloads of toxic mud from dam

  • About 2.2 million cubic yards of muck is being excavated as part of an effort to dismantle the Milltown Dam in Montana.

    • MILLTOWN, Mont. (AP) — Every evening, a 45-car train rumbles away from the Clark Fork River, loaded not with copper, gold or silver ore, but with the toxic legacy of more than a century of mining: tons of contaminated mud from behind an old dam.

    Workers are removing 2.2 million cubic yards of the muck — and dismantling the 101-year-old Milltown Dam — in a breathtakingly scenic part of Montana trout-fishing country celebrated in Norman Maclean's novel “A River Runs Through It.”


     
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