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Love Canal is a neighborhood of Niagara falls, NY that was built on top of a toxic waste dump site. This site was closed in 1953 and grass slowly grew over it. When Niagara Falls started to boom economically in the 1960s they needed room for new schools. Local government insisted on building schools on top of the dump site even though they were warned of the dangers. Later on, homes were built around the same location, yet residents no longer knew about the toxic waste. In the 1970s reporters caught wind of what happened and started going from door to door to ask local residents about birth defects. A survey conducted by the Love Canal Homeowners Association found that 56% of the children born from 1974-1978 had at least one birth defect.
Industries had dumped chemicals in the area's ground for years.
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∙ 6y agoThe pollution made the people of Love Canal sick. The government had to move the people and it became a Superfund site.
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∙ 6y agoIt was a toxic waste dump. The people that lived there became ill from the chemicals in the land and many got cancers.
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∙ 6y agoLove Canal was a toxic dump site.
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∙ 6y agoPeople were moved to try to stop the illness from the cancers.
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∙ 16y agotoxic chemical dumping
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∙ 12y agoThey Banged Each Other, VERY HARD.
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What happen to the residents of love canal?
The pollution made the people of Love Canal sick. The government had to move the people and it became a Superfund site.
What are the positive impacts of the love canal?
there was no positive impacts from Love Canal it should of never happened in the first place
What happened in Niagara falls NY in the 1970?
Love Canal Love Canal Actually The Love Canal Disaster took place in 1978, right after the blizzard of 1977.
Did all love canal residents die?
well, everyone dies eventually, so yes.
How many people died from the love canal?
The residents at the love canal died because some company buried deadly chemical waste underground. Then the government purchased the land and built houses and a school over it.
Why did all the residents of love canal ny die?
Not all the residents of love canal died. Many were relocated eventually and many suffered a varity of different illnesses. I grew up near there. Know people that did live there and that do live there now that it has been revitalized.
What was love canal?
Love Canal is a neighborhoodwithin Niagara Falls, New York. The site is known as the host of a 16-acre landfill that served as the epicenter of a massive environmental pollution disaster that affected the health of hundreds of residents, culminating in an extensive Superfund cleanup operation.
Where did the Love Canal get its name?
The man who had the idea to build the canal was William T. Love.
When did Paisley canal disaster happen?
Paisley canal disaster happened in 1810.
What happend to the residents of love canal NY?
They discovered 21,000 tons of toxic waste buried beneath the neighborhood that had to be cleaned up. According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1979, residents exhibited a "disturbingly high rate of miscarriages...Love Canal can now be added to a growing list of environmental disasters involving toxics, ranging from industrial workers stricken by nervous disorders and cancers to the discovery of toxic materials in the milk of nursing mothers." In one case, two out of four children in a single Love Canal family had birth defects; one girl was born deaf with a cleft palate, an extra row of teeth, and slight retardation, and a boy was born with an eye defect. A survey conducted by the Love Canal Homeowners Association found that 56% of the children born from 1974-1978 had a birth defect. Source: Wikipedia
What happened to the residents of the Cape of Hope?
they got murked
After building the Suez Canal what happened to Egypt?
they could not pay their debts and had to sell the Seuz Canal.
