The Love Canal is a 36 square block neighborhood located in Niagara Falls, New York. The Love Canal was used to bury 21,000 tons of toxic waste from Hooker Chemical, now known as Occidental Petroleum Corporation. Later on the Love Canal was purchased by the Niagara Falls school Board with a deed explaining the presence of the waste and a clause about the contamination of the chemicals. The development of houses and heavy rain let the chemicals come up from the soil and started to affect the people in the neighborhood. The sicknesses that people got from these chemicals are miscarriages and cancer. After the government saw people were getting sick they had to relocate people to different areas whose houses were highly contaminated. The houses that were not badly contaminated decided to stay in the neighborhood. Up to this day the neighborhood is still contaminated.
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