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The Love Canal
Title: The Love Canal
Category: History
Details: Words: 888 | Pages: 3.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Love Canal
The Love Canal is located near Niagara Falls in upstate New York. The Canal was constructed as a waterway during the nineteenth century, but was abandoned shortly afterwards.
The Love Canal story is essentially the story of the thousands of families who lived unknowingly amongst an abandoned toxic chemical waste dump. It wasn’t the first time in U.S history where this has happened, nor was it the worst, but it did grab the …showed first 75 words of 888 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 888 total…admit to the health problems at the canal. They will only acknowledge a concern for pregnant women and children under two. Because of this lack of acknowledgement families could be moving back into these homes and bearing the same medical and emotional problems that 500 families have already gone through.
Works Cited
Enger, Eldon and Smith, Bradley. Enviromental Science. New York: McGraw Hill Publishers, 2000.
Gibbs, Lois Maris. Love Canal The Story Continues.. Conneticut: New Society Publishers, 1998.
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