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Love Canal

Love Canal. http://cms.westport.k12.ct.us/cmslmc/Grade6/Disasters/picts/0703curr_besafe.jpg. http://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/history/images/love-canal-protester.jpg. What was the Love Canal?. Supposed to be a “dream community” near Niagra Falls, New York, founded by William Love.

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Love Canal

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  1. Love Canal http://cms.westport.k12.ct.us/cmslmc/Grade6/Disasters/picts/0703curr_besafe.jpg http://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/history/images/love-canal-protester.jpg

  2. 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. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1PAwavM11mk/S6wZZCdPakI/AAAAAAAAACo/-QgjIJ3qUow/s320/12440_love_canal_locator.gif

  3. 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. http://www.dinf.ne.jp/doc/english/global/david/dwe002/dwe002g/dwe00214g31.jpg

  4. Resource • http://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/history/topics/lovecanal/01.html

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