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Deer Lodge Valley ranchers sued the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. in the early 1900s because emissions from the smelter stack were killing their cattle, their hayfields and a lot more.
During the fall of 2022 and spring of 2023 a contractor working for Atlantic Richfield seeded cover soil atop black slag near Anaconda. So far, grass growth has been sparse.
The state s Natural Resource Damage Program completed the Superfund related remediation for sites on state-owned lands known as the Anaconda Uplands and EPA certified the work.