We knew as Shit Creek forever. Homestake Mining Company dumped cyanide and worse into Whitewood Creek for a hundred years so the waterway was named a Superfund site in 1981 but before selling to Canadian miner Barrick, Homestake restored some of it in 1994 and the stream was taken off the Superfund list in 1996. How Whitewood's water supply is safe for human consumption remains a mystery.
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