The Anaconda Company Smelter processed ore from Butte’s Berkeley Pit until the early 1980s. Between Butte and Anaconda I know seven people that have it. He says he has an autoimmune disease and no one has been able to explain to him how he got it.
He says he’s lived in Anaconda all his life and taught at the local school for 39 years. The event was organized by the branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in charge of investigating community health concerns related to potential toxic substances and diseases. More than 35 years after the Anaconda copper smelter closed, federal health officials are partnering with state and local governments to visit the town and to listen to people’s health concerns possibly related to the toxic waste left behind.įrom 1:30 to 7:30 Thursday afternoon at the Anaconda senior center, locals could stop by and talk to government scientists and doctors about their worries.
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