EPA proposes filling old pit in southwest Mo. mine cleanup

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

WEBB CITY, Mo. -- City officials will consider a proposal to dump 1 million cubic yards of rock into an old swimming hole as part of a plan by the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up abandoned mining land near this southwest Missouri town.

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