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UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA IN THE NEWS
12 October 2009

And we are so proud of their program's progress!

The University of Oklahoma is receiving a lot of press coverage of their passive mine water treatment system at the Tar Creek Superfund Site lately. Links to some of the recent articles follow:

Bullet Education VIDEO Oklahoma Education Television Authority (OETA) Oklahoma News Report – Tar Creek Cleanup,
URL: http://news.oeta.tv/ then click on “ONR-10-7-09”; coverage includes initial introduction at time 00:29, teaser at 4:18 and story at 15:22.

Bullet Education KOAM TV, Pittsburg, KS – Passive Water Treatment System URL here

Bullet Education Fourstatehomepage.com Video and text – Treating Tar Creek URL here

Bullet Education TEXT KOAM TV (Pittsburg, KS) online text-Ecological engineering cleans contaminated water at Tar Creek area URL here

Bullet Education Miami News-Record - Officials meet for tour of passive treatment system URL here (requires subscription for full article)

Bullet Education Joplin Globe - Educator: Test on Tar Creek successful URL here

  

 

 

 

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Making a Difference
Making a Difference at the
Tar Creek Superfund Site:
Community Efforts to Reduce
Risk is a book that we hope
will inspire other communities
facing environmental injustices.
It comes with a DVD featuring
a new film Progress at Tar
Creek and two films of youth
efforts through service learning.
The first printing was made
possible through a grant from
the National Institutes of
Environmental Health Sciences.  
Thank you for sharing our vision
to make a difference. There is
still more to be done.  LEAD
Agency will accept donations to
reproduce additonal copies and
to allow for postage.

LEAD Agency, Inc.
19257 South 4403 Drive
Vinita, OK 74301
918-256-5269
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Bullet Education Norman Transcript: OU professor says test on Tar Creek successful URL here

Bullet Education Norman Transcript photos URL here

Bullet Education Tulsa World: New system cleans part of Tar Creek-– The passive system is treating contaminated mine drainage
URL here

Bullet Education Tulsa World: Organic water treatment system has cleaned up one-fifth of Tar Creek contaminants URL here

Bullet Education Tulsa World EDITORIAL: Tar Creek Afterlife - Will clean up efforts work? URL here

Bullet Education The Oklahoman - $1.2M system attacks Tar Creek’s water contaminants URL here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

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