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How many people were affected in the Love Canal?
Results of tracing the 6,181 members of the Love Canal cohort.
What happened to the houses in Love Canal?
Many live in houses left abandoned by their former owners nearly 40 years ago. They were renovated at government expense. “There was pollution, but they contained it, and there’s no problem with living in this area,” said Michael Oliveira of 93rd Street.
Is Love Canal still toxic 2020?
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency conducts air sampling in basements at Love Canal and concludes that toxic vapors it found are a serious health threat. New York State Department of Health reveals its plan for medical studies of Love Canal residents.
Is living near Love Canal safe?
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency decided today that much of the Love Canal neighborhood in Niagara Falls, N.Y., is safe enough from chemical contamination to permit people to move back in.
How did the Love Canal affect animals?
He found that animals caught near the fence had severely damaged livers, including excess fat, underdeveloped reproductive organs, lowered levels of important body chemicals and unusually low levels of the energy-producing substance called glycogen.
Has Love Canal been resolved?
Two decades after Love Canal became the first polluted site on the newly created Superfund list, federal officials announced yesterday that the neighborhood that epitomized environmental horror in the late 1970’s was clean enough to be taken off the list.
Why was the Love Canal district contaminated?
During the 1960’s, complaints about odors and residues were first reported at the Love Canal site. These reports increased in the 1970’s as the water level rose, bringing contaminated groundwater to the surface.
Was the Love Canal ever cleaned up?
Decades of dumping toxic chemicals harmed the health of hundreds of residents; the area was cleaned up over the course of 21 years in a Superfund operation. In 1890, Love Canal was created as a model planned community, but was only partially developed.
What was done to cleanup Love Canal?
Industrial chemicals dumped into the partly completed canal by the Hooker Chemical Company from 1947 to 1952 have been removed or contained in one area that was lined with impermeable materials and capped by clay. A drainage system collects water runoff and treats it.