Wichita? Residents of the southeast Kansas town of Treece face “a unique and urgent threat from the legacy of pollution” and should be relocated, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday. EPA ...

Local and state officials are trying to get a federal buyout to move residents from Treece, Kan. Treece was once a prosperous mining town, but is now nearly deserted. The roughly 100 residents left ...

Treece? Kansas and federal officials assured residents of this toxic town Thursday that government efforts to buy their property and move them out will proceed somehow, even if state lawmakers don’t ...

Charles Moreland and daughter Acey, residents of Treece, wait in line outside Treece City Hall earlier this month to get their blood tested for lead. The Wichita Eagle Congress authorized buying out ...

Treece, Kansas, was a thriving mining town during the First and Second World Wars. It’s now been almost entirely abandoned due to major pollution. For the past two years, the photographer Dina Kantor ...

Treece, Kansas, doesn’t exist anymore. Founded in 1917 around a mining operation, the town served as a major supplier of lead, zinc, and iron ore for decades. But when the reserves dried up, the local ...

TREECE — Kansas and federal officials assured residents of this toxic town Thursday that government efforts to buy their property and move them out will proceed somehow, even if state lawmakers don't ...

Charles Moreland and daughter Acey, residents of Treece, wait in line outside Treece City Hall earlier this month to get their blood tested for lead. The Wichita Eagle TREECE — Kansas and federal ...

In this show, explore the history of the lead & zinc mines in SE Kansas along with their economic, health and environmental impacts on the region; then we meet New Yorkers Dina Kantor and Chaela ...

A project to relocate the residents of a former Southeast Kansas town figuratively and literally undermined by its mining history has entered its final phase. The Treece Relocation Assistance Trust ...

Residents and local officials gathered here Thursday to say a fond and final farewell to a lead-contaminated town that no longer exists. In the past two years, this city in the far southeastern corner ...