Sure, the Washington Post had this story about the "largest Superfund site in the nation" on April 16. But Sherry Devlin had actually reported it the day before, and a lot of other days before that, going back years, in an accumulation of great local environmental coverage. The reservoir behind the Milltown Dam holds 6.6 million cubic yards of sediment laced with lead, arsenic, cadmium, and other heavy metals washed downstream from decades of mining operations at the Anaconda Superfund site, now owned by ARCO, who will have to pay for cleanup. EPA and the community faced a tough choice between removing the dam and reservoir sediments (and risking mobilizing the sediments) on one hand and leaving them in place and hoping the century-old dam wouldn't crumble or be smashed by ice jams. This article is the capstone to Devlin's long coverage of the politics, economics, and environmental issues behind this cleanup decision. And for the record, Devlin published a story reporting that EPA had made the Milltown decision informally on January 23, almost three months before national media picked it up as a formality in D.C. You can read all of Devlin's coverage on the issue because the Missoulian's online archives are free. (See: http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2003/04/16/news/local/news01.txt)