Period+3+-+Love+Canal

L o v e C a n a l http://www.acmecompany.com/stock_thumbnails/12440.love_canal_locator.gif =__**Location:**__ = = = =__**Time Line:**__ =
 * Eastern edge of Niagara Falls, NY
 * William T. Love build short canal
 * Meant to be dream community but didn't turn out that way. 
 * 1910: all left of canal is a partial ditch where construction of canal had begun
 * 1920's: canal turned into municipal and industrial chemical dump site (not managed well)
 * 1920-1953: site to dump hazardous waste
 * 1953: the Hooker Chemical Company and operators of dump site covered it up with dirt and sold to city for $1.
 * Late 1950's 100 homes and a school were built at the site.
 * August 1978: article published saying that even though some landfills have been closed, they can be "ticking time bombs".
 * August, 1978: exploded because of record amount of rainfall and short after leaching (minerals are dissolved by ground water) began.

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 * corroding waste disposal drums broke up through backyards
 * Trees and gardens turned black and died.
 * puddles full of noxious substances in yards and basements.
 * air had faint chocking smell.
 * children who went outside and played came back with burned hands and faces.
 * birth defects (some include: deafness, cleft palate, extra row of teeth, slight retardation, and eye defects.)
 * High miscarriage rate
 * High white-blood-cell count (leads to leukemia)
 * Finally evacuated from homes and neighborhood one chemical seeping thorugh the ground was benzene, a human carcinogen (meaning it's a substance causing cancer) which was found in high concentrations
 * August 7, 1978: government bought houses affected by chemicals.
 * August 7.1978: President Carter approved financial aid for Love Canal area (1st emergency funds to ever be approved for something besides a natural disaster) and the U.S Senate approved a "sense of Congress" amendment saying Federal aid should be should be forthcoming to relieve the serious environmental disaster that occurred.
 * through the natural environmental program it's administers, the EPA is attempting to draw a chain of Congressional acts around the toxic problem.
 * EPA proposed that hazardous wastes produced in U.S. should be disposed of safely.
 * EPA monitors active and inactive sites in the region.
 * Info from the Love Canal helped pass CERCLA, the Comprehensive Emergency Response, Compensation and Liability Act ("Superfund Act")
 * Tax on chemical and petroleum industries and provided broad Federal authority to respond directly to releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances that may endanger public health or the environment (passed Dec. 11, 1980)
 * References**
 * http://www.onlineethics.org/CMS/enviro/envirocases/lcanal.aspx
 * http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9560
 * http://www.epa.gov/superfund/policy/cercla.htm
 * http://epa.gov/history/topics/lovecanal/01.htm
 * http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t244


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