Love Canal

The Love Canal was an environemntal disaster that occured in Niagara Falls, N.Y. A man named William T. Love, had an idea for a community that he wanted to create, a modern utopia. His idea was to make a canal between the upper and lower Niagara Rivers, so that power could be less expensive. At that time the economy was not at a stable time, and so he lost the monatery aid from people. The Hooker chemical company, then bought the canal area and used it to dump many chemicals. After some time they decided to sell the area to the board of education for one dollar. One day, the people living in the Love Canal community, noticed substances in their yards and strange odors. That was a result of the chemicals coming out from the clay that the city put to cover those substances. From the chemicals being released into the air, many women had miscarriages and babies were born with defects.