The eastern Missouri Ozarks are home to some of the world's largest lead-ore bodies. Lead mining has been ongoing since the French settled in the 1700's, and has left a legacy of contamination. Mining and milling of lead and other heavy metals have contaminated thousands of acres of remote rural Missouri as well of the lands adjacent to the lead smelters in Herculaneum, Buick and Glover. Over the years the many and varied mining companies in Missouri have been consolidated into one large company known as the Doe Run Company. Doe Run is headquartered in St.

In the event you Missouri fisherpersons out there have not read the 2008 "Missouri Fishing Regulations", it might be wise to do so, in particular if you partake of any of your catch.

These regulations read, in part, "Because all fish have various levels of mercury, the Environmental Protection Agency recommends sensitive populations consume no more than one meal per week when no other advisory is present."

Sensitive populations are in essence, any female of childbearing age, whether pregnant or not, and children under age 13.

Childhood lead exposure linked to adult crime

By Greg Toppo

 USA TODAY

 May 28, 2008

Background: Multi-billionaire, Ira Leon Rennert, owner of the Doe Run Compamy (USA) and Doe Run Peru and a myraid of other pollution sources including US Magnesium and the Hummer Corp has built the largest house in America in Sagaponnack, Long Island. A 100 car garage, 44 bathrooms with gold fixtures, several bowling allies, a movie theatre and 67 acres of formal English gardens cost Rennert a whopping $150 million. Meanwhile his polluting businesses make him the largest private polluter in North America. His Doe Run Peru smelter makes the town of La Oroya at 11,000 feet in the Andes, the most poisoned urban center in the Western Hemisphere! Most citizens there, including 18,000 children are poisoned with lead and other heavy metals. While refusing to meet with religeous leaders from Peru about his toxic heavy metal smelter, he revels in monetary displays like these apartment houses for his daughters or recently renting Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York for a private gala. A recent endowment to New York University totalled $3 million.

The Tale of Doe Run
A Firm Grip on the Corporate Ankle
by Tom Kruzen

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