
Their are 3 major superfund clean up sites that I can think of right off the top of my head right now.... In Montana
#1 Lincoln County (Libby)
#2 Missoula County (Missoula)
#3 Silver Bow County (Butte)
I can come up with a few more if I really dug into the paperwork.
(This business of the Milltown Dam in Missoula and the
Berkeley Pit is a real mess. They are dredging the Clark Fork and shipping the mercury and heavy metaled earth back to Butte, from whence it came in the first place (broken link)..... and then, just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, the Pit will overflow in a few or more years, 'cause it's filling with water you know, and very polluted acidic water at that, will spill out to only run "downhill" through Butte and right back into the Clark Fork. And I shouldn't forget to mention that the Clark Fork will not only effect areas between Butte and Missoula, no, it all flows downhill, through presumed prestine places like Superior, Noxon, and flows over to Bonner County Idaho and enters the east end of Lake Pend Oreille.)
If you are worried about pollution, or hazardous waste in the ground, these 3 areas are definitely the ones to avoid.
(as a side note.... Why won't anyone ever mention the "huge" landfill "that is quite clearly visible" above Missoula north along the interstate? Missoula gets garbage hauled in from as far away as Lewiston, Idaho to be buried there. Why can't Idaho find someplace to bury their own garbage?)
If you are worried about pollution in the air.... Well, most all of the Western Montana valleys have issues with air quality that are "far" above the national average.....
Well...... I'll jump off of my soapbox now...
