Love Canal Incident

One of the highly pubicized toxic waste disasters took place at Love Canal, a once pleasant neighbohood near of industrial town of Niagara Falls, New York. This incident name come from the enterpreneur who as part of scheme to industrialize Niagara Falls, startd building a canal on the site in the late nineteenth century, William T. Love. Love ultimately declared that they are brankrupt, and soon after World War II the area was acquired by the Hooker Chemical and Plastics Corporation, which dumped approximately 21,800 tons wastes into the canal between 1947 and 1952. In 1953 Hooker covered the site with dirt and sold it to the Niagara Falls Board of Education for $ 1.00. The board - which had signed papers stipulating that it would not hold hooker responsibile for any injuries or deaths that might occur at the site-then built a school on the landfill and sold adjoining lots for real estate development. Families settlet in the area.