LJWorld.com / Saturday, October 11, 2008

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At the site of an abandoned mine derrick, Randy Barr tosses a rock into a mine shaft filled with water. The uncovered shaft measures hundreds of feet deep.

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"I think that if there is one environmental lesson to be learned that the last 20, 30, or 40 years have taught us is that its a hell of a lot easier to prevent a problem than it is to fix it once you've got it" —Rex Buchanan, associate director of the Kansas Geological Survey in Lawrence

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