Love Canal

Love Canal is a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York. It is known as the location of a 70-acre (28 ha; 0.11 sq mi; 0.28 km²) landfill that became the site of a massive environmental disaster in the 1970s. After years of dumping toxic chemicals harmed the health of hundreds of residents; the area was cleaned up over the course of 21 years in a Superfund operation.

It is seen as a "national symbol of a failure to exercise a sense of concern for future generations".^[1]

Love Canal Media

A view of Love Canal in 2012
Hooker Electrochemical Quit Claim Deed to Board of Education.
A protest by Love Canal residents, ca. 1978.
Love Canal residents discuss revitalizing their contaminated neighborhood with EPA Administrator Lee M. Thomas in 1985.
Abandoned streets on the west side of Love Canal.
Looking down 99th Street in Love Canal.

References

↑ Verhovek, Sam How (August 5, 1988). "After 10 Years, the Trauma of Love Canal Continues". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-07-29.

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[1] Verhovek, Sam How (August 5, 1988). "After 10 Years, the Trauma of Love Canal Continues". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-07-29.

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