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Hundreds of families were evacuated from Love Canal. New York State bought the houses effected by the chemicals and the US provided financial aid for the families affected. Love Canal was announced a Disaster Area by the President. The Love Canal area was detoxified through a trench system to drain chemicals. Now, Love Canal is safe enough to permit people to move back into.

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There was no fire.

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The chemicals leached into groundwater, which was used as a source of water by many families. The sewers were also full of chemicals from the contaminated rainwater. There were over 200 polluting chemicals found in the water of Love Canal.

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The chemicals' health effects on humans were great. The chemicals caused birth defects, miscarriages, burns, leukemia, lymphomas, breathing problems, narcosis, liver damage, finger paralysis, cancer, psychotic abnormalities, and other nervous system disorders. Hundreds of families had to move out of the area.

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The waste chemicals leached through the ground and into backyards. Waste disposal drums rose from the ground. Swimming pools popped up from their foundations. Puddles of chemicals emerged from the ground and the air had a choking smell.

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In the early 1900s, man named William Love planned to dig a canal to power the homes and industry that he planned to build. The canal project was abandoned after newer forms of energy were discovered. In the mid 1900s, the canal was filled with 22,000 tons of municipal and chemical waste by the company that bought the land from William Love. The company then covered the waste filled canal with dirt and sold it to the city. Homes and schools were built on top of the Love Canal. However, one year in the 1970s there was increased rainfall, causing for the water table to rise and the chemicals to leach through the ground.

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-Dioxin
-Benzene
-Carbon Tetrachloride
-Lindane
-Chloroform
-Methylene Chloride
-Trichloroethylene
-Toluene
-and many other carcinogens and chemicals

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“Department of Health.” Love Canal: A Special Report to the Governor & Legislature, www.health.ny.gov/environmental/investigations/love_canal/lcreport.htm.

Beck, Eckardt C. “The Love Canal Tragedy.” EPA, Environmental Protection Agency, 22 Sept. 2016, www.archive.epa.gov/epa/aboutepa/love-canal-tragedy.html.

Shabecoff, Philip. “Government Says Abandoned Love Canal Homes Are Safe Now.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 15 May 1990, www.nytimes.com/1990/05/15/nyregion/government-says-abandoned-love-canal-homes-are-safe-now.html.

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The Love Canal tragedy took place in Niagara Falls, New York during the 1970s