THE LOVE CANAL

1. THE LOVE CANAL BY: APRIL HAWKINS

2. Love canal • Love Canal is a neighborhood in Niagara falls, New York, which became the subject of national and international attention, controversy, and eventual environmental notoriety following the discovery of 21,000 tons of toxic waste that had been buried beneath the neighborhood by Hooker Chemical.

3. Images of Love Canal

4. Where it effect • Love Canal officially covers 36 square blocks in the far southeastern corner of the city, along 99th Street and Read Avenue. Two bodies of water define the northern and southern boundaries of the neighborhood: Bergholtz Creek to the north and the Niagara River one-quarter mile (400 m) to the south. In this area, Grand Island is situated on the south shore of the Niagara River.

5. After • Ten years after the incident, New York State Health Department Commissioner David Axelrod stated that Love Canal would long be remembered as a "national symbol of a failure to exercise a sense of concern for future generations."The Love Canal incident was especially significant as a situation where the inhabitants "overflowed into the wastes instead of the other way around."

6. My Sources • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Canal • http://www.google.ca/images?hl=en&q=love+canal&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi • http://www.epa.gov/history/topics/lovecanal/01.htm