Cherokee Zinc Company Weir Smelter

Cherokee Zinc Company Weir Smelter is a superfund site located at 413 N. Washington Street, Weir, KS 66781. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) identifies sites such as Cherokee Zinc Company Weir Smelter because they pose or had once posed a potential risk to human health and/or the environment due to contamination by one or more hazardous wastes. Cherokee Zinc Company Weir Smelter is currently registered as an Active superfund site by the EPA. However, it is not on the NPL (National Priorities List), which means the EPA does not consider it one of the nation's most hazardous waste sites.