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Let the Stream Run Through It

The dry creek bed of Silver Bow Creek, part of the two-mile stretch of contaminated soil that has yet to be cleaned up, in Butte, Mont., May 29, 2018. It’s taken two decades to clean up most of Silver Bow Creek, polluted from a century of mining. Now some Butte residents want the last two miles restored, to babble on through the city. (Janie Osborne/The New York Times)