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LOVE CANAL TRAGEDY 
 * most appalling environmental tragedies in American history **


 * Love **** Canal ** was intended to be a ** dream ** community on the eastern edge of Niagara Falls, New York by William T. Love.

From 1942 to 1953, **Hooker Chemicals and Plastics Corporation** disposed of over 21,000 tons of various //chemicals// including dioxin-tainted trichlorophenols at the ** Love Canal ** site. In **1950**, after the site was deeded to the city of Niagara Falls Board of Education, the **93rd Street** **School was built**. In **1954**, a **second school, the 99th Street School**, was built adjacent to the mid-portion of the canal. During the **mid-1970's**, contaminated leachate migrated to the surface of the canal, to some residential basements adjacent to the canal, and through ** sewers ** to area ** creeks **. In **1980**, the **93rd Street** **School** was //closed// because of public health concerns related to the potentially contaminated fill material. Investigations conducted in **1988** revealed the presence of VOCs, other organics, and metals in the soil.

Acts or Laws resulting from the ** Love Canal **: The Clean Air and Water Acts, The Safe Drinking Water Acts, Pesticide Act, and the Toxic Substances Control Act.

** Expenses to date for the Love Canal remediation project total about $250,000,000. **

References: http://civil.engr.siu.edu/301I_Ray/he_love.htm, [|www.epa.gov/history/topics/lovecanal/01.htm], http://www.acmecompany.com/stock_thumbnails/12440.love_canal_locator.gif, http://www.epa.gov/superfund/20years/images/protest.jpg,


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