A woman from a town in Kansas refuses to leave her home even though it is hazardous. All of her neighbors have left, but Della Busby and her husband are the only ones left in the zinc and lead contaminated town of Treece. Â Hit the jump!
Steph Bassanini
Treece, Kansas, is a poisoned town.
Only one house remains. Tim and Della Busby are the lone residents of the community today. And they say they’re staying put.
Even if it’s toxic, Treece is still their home.
This tiny community in southeast Kansas used to be a bustling mining enclave — with a school, hundreds of homes and bars the got rowdy with drunken miners on payday.
But, the mines that turned Treece into a boomtown ultimately left it lifeless and abandoned.
It’s a toxic ghost town now. All but two residents left when the federal government offered buyouts to the 138 people who stuck around after the mines shut down, the Kansas City Star reports.
The Environmental Protection Agency says decades of zinc and lead mining have left the soil, water and air contaminated.
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