INDEPENDENT LENS | The Creek Runs Red | PBS

where is Eagle Picher The company that
made millons then left .

We drove through Picher Labor day weekend right after it closed down for good. We were going to Kansas and just came upon it by accident. (had never been there) I saw the red creek and the piles of waste and then we came into the ghost town. I knew that something was up and researched it. Thanks for posting this video.

fabulous documentary.

I'm sorry but people are not so long faced in town like it shows in this clip. After the tornado people were kind of in shock so yeah it wasn't to happiest place but if you go anywhere people treat you like long lost family. I lived there from birth to 13 and just moved right beside it so it's still home. I hate how every news or documentary crew always makes it look so depressing and just void of everything. It's a halfdead town but I'll always luv it and I will be a Chat Rat til the day I die.

To the brilliant individual who wants to ride his ATV on the chat piles, by all means go right ahead. Of course, you might die from exposure to the dust containing cadmium and lead, but go right ahead and ride our chat piles!
I got involved with Picher's story through Joe Don Rooney of Rascal Flatts. This is a fantastic documentary about the town, though it really makes me miss Orval Ray (the fellow narrating the clip), he was Picher's champion right up to the end.

Chat Rats to the end!

Oh yah the pool hall the guy came out of
has huge tables!!! I played there back in
the early "90s".

Bypass the area with a canal,build sealed
catch lagoons,to filter runoff from the
area,and let us atv riders pay to ride
the chat piles to fund the project,
everyone wins!!! right? I know,
 "THATS CHILDISH" you say.

hicklebilly city

more people need to wake up and see this

new song dedicated to the status quo

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