EPA, Missouri Disagree on Level of Lead Contamination near Herculaneum Smelter.

From: St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri) (viaKnight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) | Date: March 19, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: Robert Kelly

Mar. 19--Federal authorities say there is no reason for residents who live near Doe Run Co.'s lead smelter in Herculaneum to move out quickly.

Representatives of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday in telephone interviews that there's not enough data to support a state agency's recommendation that residents move out of the area within three-eighths mile of the smelter. That area had been cleaned up, but state regulators...

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