Cleanup of a creek full of sludge is all that is visibly left after what is been called the worst environmental disaster in the eastern United States occurred in Inez Kentucky in Oct 2000 when after heavy rains a dam failed after heavy rain and 300 million gallons of toxic sludge broke through underground mine and shot out of the side of a mountain like a lava flow surrounding houses and poisoning two streams and drinking water for 17 communities.
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