Editing Deer Lodge, Montana (section)

===Superfund site===
In the 1870s, [[Butte, Montana|Butte]] developed into a rich silver mining camp.{{sfn|Malone|1976|pp = 187-188}} [[Marcus Daly]]'s discovery of rich copper veins in his Anaconda mine launched the [[Copper Kings]] era at Butte. In 1883, Daly established his smelter facilities at newly platted [[Anaconda, Montana]].{{sfn|Malone|1976|pp = 202-205}} Anaconda immediately became Deer Lodge County's major population center and employer. Smelting activities at Butte and Anaconda left behind enormous amounts of toxic wastes. Flooding on [[Silver Bow Creek]] and [[Warm Springs Creek (Montana)|Warm Springs Creek]], particularly in the great valley flood of 1908,<ref>{{Cite news | title = Train Service Demoralized | newspaper = The River Press | location = Fort Benton, Montana | date = June 10, 1908 | page = 1}}</ref>{{efn|Significant flooding in the valley also occurred in 1887, 1892, 1894, 1899 and 1902.{{sfn|Geomorphology|1998| p = 5}}}} spread toxic wastes from Butte through Deer Lodge City, to the [[Milltown Dam]],{{efn|One reason the earlier floods had less obvious impact was that the Milltown Dam didn't exist until early 1908, when [[William A. Clark|W. A. Clark]] had it constructed to support his lumber mill at the site.}} just east of Missoula.<ref>{{Cite web| title = Bonner Milltown History:The Great Flood of 1908| access-date = July 7, 2016| url = http://tworivershistory.net/the-great-flood-of-1908.html| website = tworivershistory.net| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131112004827/http://www.tworivershistory.net/the-great-flood-of-1908.html| archive-date = November 12, 2013| url-status = dead}}</ref><ref name = "Geomorphology">{{Citation | last1 = Smith | first1 = J. Dungan | last2 = Lambing | first2 = John H. | last3 = Nimick | first3 = David A. | last4 = Parrett | first4 = Charles | last5 = Ramey | first5 = Michael | last6 = Schafer | first6 = William | title = Geomorphology, Flood-Plain Tailings, and Metal Transport in the Upper Clark Fork Valley, Montana | date = October 1998  | publisher = U.S. Geological Survey | location = Helena | ref = CITEREFGeomorphology1998}}</ref> As a result of legal actions begun in 1983 and culminating in 2008, the course of the Clark Fork River from Anaconda to the Milltown Dam was declared to be a [[List of Superfund sites in Montana|Superfund cleanup site]]. Cleanup costs are financed from the settlement with [[ARCO]] (now BP-ARCO).<ref>{{cite web | url =http://www.law360.com/articles/46465/arco-agrees-to-187m-superfund-cleanup-settlement | title =Arco Agrees To $187M Superfund Cleanup Settlement | last =Tracy | first = Marc | date =February 7, 2008 | website =www.law360.com/ | publisher = Law360 | access-date =July 6, 2016 }}</ref>{{efn|As of 2016, fish are reported to be in the Deer Lodge River and white-tailed deer are frequently seen in the valley. }}{{efn|The clean-up of the area of Butte and Silver Bow Creek down to Anaconda is a separate [[superfund]] site<!--cite to [https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id%3D0800416, not an inline link-->.}}