Anaconda, MT
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Montana's 'Hidden Gem On The Continental Divide' Is A Secret Mountain Town With Endless Recreation
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It’s a very cool little town, close in proximity to some great outdoor rec stuff - it does have a ginormous pile (like the size of the town) of toxic arsenic laden slag that you pass on the way in that they are in the process of capping, from the Anaconda smelter that handled the ore from the Butte mines. You can see it on google earth, you used to be able to see it from the main road (when we moved here) but they have covered that part up. And there is very little vegetation down wind of the smelter. The town has a great brewery, and the BEST pizza by the slice. When we moved here in 2018 you could get a lot near Georgetown lake for about $60k, and a really old fixer upper in philipsburg for about $40K and now everything is crazy expensive.
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They do. It comes from pretty far away. Butte (and Anaconda) did a good job of making sure the water came from a clean source far away pretty early on - even though they poisoned the soil close by. Butte’s water is the best tasting water we’ve had so far. It comes from a river on the other side of the mountains and a reservoir up in the hills south of town.
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My Dad's family's homestead now and since the '20's is in a little town where they used to do uranium processing on the outskirts of town.
There was an industrial accident and they dumped all the uranium they needed to get rid of in a lake in the same town.
Then they filled it in and rerouted the Application Trail over it.
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When I lived in Butte, in 1990, the water came out of the tap brown. Utterly disgusting. Everyone had gallons of purified water in their homes that they bought at the store. I used to go to the hot springs in Anaconda to take a shower because there was no way I was washing myself with what came out of the tap in Butte. I understand this issue was fixed well before the Jodis moved there.
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I don't know if the EPA has all of the SuperFund sites mapped out on their website (and don't want to know) but they did before 9/11, and removed this information, "for national security reasons."
There were places in New Orleans and its environs where you could barely see the map through all the overlapping black dots.
