Love+Canal+Disaster

The Love Canal was a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York. 21,000 tons of toxic waste was discovered buried beneath the neighborhood by Hooker Chemical in 1978. Hooker chemical was an American oil and gas exploration and production company with operations that were in the U.S, middle east, north africa, and south america. Love canal officially covers 36 square blocks in the city while bodies of water define the northern and southern boundaries of the neighborhood. In 1953, this chemical company had owned it but that year sold it for a cheap price. It had become a solid working class community for a while. Then attention of many people became the focus of a problem of Love Canal. Breathing toxic fumes and being exposed to actual pools of chemicals that were coming from the underground was extremely risky. Slowly, homes were evacuated and soon after, everyone had to evacuate. In all 20,000 tons of 248 assorted chemicals were buried at Love Canal. [|Online ethics about Love Canal] [|History on Love Canal- EPA] [|Love Canal description- toxipedia] [|About Love Canal- Buffalo Libraries]