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What was the Love Canal?
• Supposed to be a “dream community” near
Niagra Falls, New York, founded by William
Love.
• Love dug a little canal to help power the
community, but in 1920 it ended up being a
chemical dumpsite.
• They covered up the dumpsite and didn’t tell
people who moved there about it.
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• Residents had to deal with birth defects, and
plants around them were dying. (A swimming
pool’s foundation was floating in a sea of
chemicals).
• There were also a lot of miscarriages and
cancers.
• The government had to relocate
about 221 families to different places
in the U.S.
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Resource
• http://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/history/topics/
lovecanal/01.html