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There is a town in Missouri the US government wiped from the map — it’s one of history’s worst environmental disasters

The story of Missouri’s Times Beach involves one of the strangest environmental disasters in American history, and it started with something as mundane as dusty roads. In a video that has racked up ...
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Why an entire Missouri town was permanently shut down

Times Beach was once a normal town in Missouri before toxic dioxin contamination made it uninhabitable. Roads were sprayed with poisoned oil, exposing residents to chemicals linked to Agent Orange. As ...
Southeast Missourian

EPA does new soil tests at Times Beach site, evacuated in 1980s because of dioxin

ST. LOUIS -- Nearly 30 years after Times Beach, Mo., was evacuated in one of the nation's most notorious environmental disasters, scientists with the Environmental Protection Agency are returning to ...
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Times Beach to be restored with $10 million in infrastructure funds

WASHINGTON – The Times Beach Nature Preserve, a 55-acre site on Buffalo's Outer Harbor that has been battered into disuse by frequent storms in recent years, will be restored thanks to one of the ...