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Yellow Creek

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Yellow Creek
A river in Kentucky once used for illegal dumping of toxic chemicals—tannin and chromium—from a local factory; exposure to waters from the Yellow Creek was linked to a local epidemic of spontaneous abortions, nausea, rashes, diarrhoea and glomerular disease.


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We love it there," Shawkey says of their weekend home, situated steps from the lake on the Mississippi side in the Yellow Creek area.
Yellow Creek is heavily polluted by abandoned-mine drainage (AMD) from a large strip-mining spoils pile.
We belong to a group called The Yellow Creek Long Rifles out of Salineville, Ohio.
 
 
 
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