Times Beach, Missouri Catastrophe
By Matt McGuire and Jarien Montgomery
What Happened
What happened in Times Beach, Missouri was terrible. All of the people who lived there had to evacuate the town because the EPA ( Environment Protection Agency ) found levels on high for a chemical called dioxin. Dioxin is a compound chemical that is manufactured in paper and bleach. A lot of animals died because the dioxin was in the soil, and the soil was contaminated and the animals were eating the grass.
Dioxin
Dioxin was the oil and cause of the evacuation of everyone in the town.
Caution
These are the signs on the roads outside Times Beach, MO.
Exerted Bus
This shows how long Times Beach, MO has been exerted and how no has lived there for "forever".
Who Was Responsible
Russell Bliss was responsible for spraying oil all across the roads in Times Beach, MO. He was payed 126$ per load to spray waste oil into the town. He was a self made millionaire, and he owned 200 acres of land. Russell admits he sprayed the oil says CNN Chicago. He got 18,000 gallons of oil waste, 6 loads, at 3,000 gallons a load.
Times Beach MO
Today
Times Beach today is a "ghost town" because everyone had been gone by 2000. If you did still live there well you would get contaminated and get a disease that would cause you to get black dots on your face.