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Love Canal

Love Canal
Superfund site
Looking into Love Canal.jpg
The Love Canal site in 2012
Geography
City Niagara Falls
County Niagara County
State New York
Coordinates 43°04′50″N 78°56′56″W / 43.080518°N 78.948956°W / 43.080518; -78.948956Coordinates: 43°04′50″N 78°56′56″W / 43.080518°N 78.948956°W / 43.080518; -78.948956
Love Canal is located in New York
Love Canal
Love Canal
Information
CERCLIS ID NYD000606947
Contaminants Various chemicals
Responsible
parties
Hooker Chemical Company
Progress
Proposed 12/30/1983
Listed 09/08/1984
Construction
completed
09/29/1998
Deleted 09/30/2004
List of Superfund sites

Love Canal is a neighborhood within Niagara Falls, New York. The site is known as the host of a 16-acre landfill that served as the epicenter of a massive environmental pollution disaster that affected the health of hundreds of residents, culminating in an extensive Superfund cleanup operation.

Originally intended in the 1890s as a planned model community, Love Canal served as a residential place before being purchased by Hooker Chemical Company (now Occidental Chemical Corporation). After its sale to the local school district, Love Canal attracted national attention for the public health problem originated from the massive dumping of toxic waste on the grounds. This event displaced numerous families, leaving them with long-standing health issues and symptoms of high red blood cell counts and leukemia. Consequently, the federal government passed the Superfund law. The resulting cleanup operation under the Superfund law demolished the neighborhood, wrapping up in 2004.

New York State Health Department Commissioner David Axelrod calls the Love Canal incident 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".

Love Canal is a neighborhood located in the city of Niagara Falls in the northwestern region of New York state. The neighborhood covers 36 square blocks in the far southeastern corner of the city, stretching from the 93rd street making up the western border to the 100th street in the east border and the 103rd street in the northeast. Bergholtz Creek defines the north border with the Niagara River marking the southern border one-quarter mile (400 m) away. The Lasalle Expressway splits an uninhabited portion of the south from the north. The canal covers 16 acres of land in the central eastern portion.


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