TAR CREEK - First Film in a Series
Brought to you by the Chandler Vermont Social Justice Festival in cooperation with the Playhouse Theater.
Monday, July 11
7:30 pm
Playhouse Theater
Randolph

Some environmental disasters get attention. Others get fixed. This is America's oldest and worst. And it looks like a third world country.

"Tar Creek" is the story of the worst environmental disaster you've never heard of: the Tar Creek Superfund site. Once one of the largest lead and zinc mines on the planet, Tar Creek is now home to more than 40 square miles of environmental devastation in northeastern Oklahoma: acid mine water in the creeks, stratospheric lead poisoning in the children, and sinkholes that melt backyards and ball fields. Now, almost 30 years after being designated for federal cleanup by the Superfund program, Tar Creek residents, including members of the Quapaw reservation, are still fighting for decontamination, environmental justice, and ultimately, the buy-out and relocation of their homes to safer ground. As "Tar Creek" reveals, America's Superfund sites aren't just environmental wastelands; they're community tragedies, too. Until the community fights back

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