East Helena was basically a company town for the smelter, which was shut down several years ago. Now it's more or less a bedroom community for Helena. You can see the blight that is the smelter
here. I'm about a mile east-north-east of the big black pit. I heard the state got more superfund cleanup money. I hope I can get my yard replaced if there's enough lead and/or arsenic in the soil. Some of my neighbors have had that done for free.