# Strip Pits: Lakes for the Future?

Script, narration, Greg Bergeron ; photography, Dan Gapen ; editor, Ray Wood

After strip mining its coal, Peabody Coal Co. turned its strip mining pit into a fresh water lake stocked with fish for recreational use

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1977
- Runtime: 13 min
- By: Peabody Coal Company (St. Louis, Mo.), Gapen's World of Fishin' (Firm), Sportsmen's Outdoors, Inc
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/strippitslakesforthefuture)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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