(I do not know where the funding for this project came from. It would be on their website.)
Part of the Their Mines, Our Stories series of films tracking the impact of ASARCO, the American Smelting and Refining Company. Under the Stack documents ASARCO's troubled history in three Southwest communities, and follows resistance..."
Our mines our stories documentary film link
The worlds two largest contop furnaces had been installed at asarco el paso tx by 1992. The contops were designed to incinerate sludges also. The merco sludge train came thru el paso in their bright red railroad cars, and could have offloaded some of it at asarco (theoretically) because the tracks went by and through plant.
"The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com › nyregion
Buying an Uneasy Home For New York City Waste
Jul 16, 1995 — Merco urgently needed to jump the line. Federal laws had banned New York from dumping its sludge at sea after July 1, 1992, and..."
