Superfund Site:

ORONOGO-DUENWEG MINING BELT
JOPLIN, MO

Superfund Site Profile

Site Contacts

Community Involvement Coordinator
Elizabeth Kramer
[email protected]
(913) 551-7186

Remedial Project Manager
Liz Blackburn
[email protected]
(913) 551-7899

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Site Location

Street Address:
VARIOUS LOCATIONS
JOPLIN, MO 64801

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Background

The Oronogo-Duenweg Mining Belt Superfund site is part of the Tri‐State Mining District where mining, milling, and smelting of lead and zinc ore began in the mid‐1800s and continued for more than 100 years. The site consists of numerous mine waste areas spread across thousands of acres in western Jasper County, and part of northwest Newton County, Missouri. Former mining and smelting operations contaminated soil, groundwater, and surface water sediments with lead, zinc, and cadmium. Million tons of surface mining wastes contaminated thousands of acres of the site.   

After initially detecting elevated heavy‐metal levels in mine waste, soil, groundwater, and sediment, the EPA ...
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