West Fork of the Black-Doe Run Mine

[Gavin]

Nice article in the STLPD about the West Fork this weekend.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/map-the-doe-run-west-fork-mine/image_0c5d9993-af48-53cf-9945-f6142cdc8d90.html

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/doe-run-gives-locals-a-sinking-feeling/article_3a16259d-b5af-5d72-8d76-7c2fb251950e.html

Scary when you think about it.

[Smalliebigs]

Well my fears were confirmed......this is soooooo F'ed up.......close the darn mine down!!!! The core let them divert the river for over a half mile so Doe run doesn't have to pump as much Lead, Zinc and Cadmium laced water into the river from their collapsed mine. They were pumping a shiot load in at first......this makes me want to F some people up!!!!!!

DOE RUN must be brought down!!!!!!!!!!!!!

F*ck Them!!!!!!!!

[jdmidwest]

That poor feller is missing all of his crawdads, tadpoles, and snakes because of the dang otters. Blame the MDC, not the Doe Run Co.

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[MOsmallies]

That poor feller is missing all of his crawdads, tadpoles, and snakes because of the dang otters. Blame the MDC, not the Doe Run Co.

I honestly hope you are not being serious... I'm going to go ahead and assume you are joking so I don't get P!$$ed off

[Greasy B]

This situation is pathetic. Haven’t we citizens, the government regulators or the extraction industry learned anything from the last hundred years of lead mining? Who is responsible? Who will answer for this? The answer, no one will. As history has shown the industry employees will bail, the leaders will squirm and weasel and the regulators will have their heads buried in a dark place. Heck, maybe we’ll get lucky and Doe Run will change their name to some other misnomer and donate another toxic state part to the grateful citizens of Missouri.

[jdmidwest]

I have seen the otters clean rivers out of frogs, snakes, and crayfish that have never been connected to any of the Lead Mines.

But on a lighter note, I really am suprised that the sinkholes do not appear more. There are 100's of miles of mine shafts under about 5 counties in the area that are bound to break thru in the future. Water is a powerful force. There will probably be more of it in the future, no way of stopping it unless you fill the tunnels back up with cement. And we know that will never happen.