A small town 30 miles south of St. Louis, MO.,where Doe Run, one of the PRPs at Tar Creek, is spending millions of dollars to remeidate a lead contaminated site.

ancient city; now destroyed

Slightly less famous than Pompeii but much better preserved, Herculaneum was also buried by the A.D. 79 eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. The city lies two miles northwest of Pompeii and was home to about 5,000 people. The city has been difficult for excavators to uncover, because it lies under a substance harder than concrete and because much of the modern Italian city of Ercolano was built right on top of it.