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"Love Canal," the name of the Niagara Falls neighborhood, is synonymous with environmental disaster. We look back 40-years after the area was declared a federal health emergency.
He also notes the area is home to Model City, an unincorporated hamlet related to a failed project by William T. Love to connect the two levels of the Niagara River in the 1890s. The incomplete, ...
In short, the Love Canal dump may never have been completely contained. Here's the problem: In a 306-page book with 32 pages of footnotes, this very important claim is not footnoted.
Ann Marie Linnaberry of the History Center of Niagara says it all began in 1893. "Model city was the brainchild of a man named William Love. He had envisioned a place where everything would be ...
But over the course of the spring of 1952, Hooker executives began to come around on the idea — at least, in part, for one reason. “The Love Canal property,” one executive said, “is ...
(WIVB) – A judge recently dismissed 18 class-action lawsuits that alleged toxic chemicals from Love Canal had migrated into their neighborhoods, damaging property and made some people sick.
Central NY News; Decades after Love Canal, Niagara Falls considers treating hydrofracking wasterwater at underused facility. Published: ; Oct. 20, 2011, 11:06 p.m.
In the 1890s, William T. Love, foreseeing an economic boom along the banks of the Niagara River, began excavating a canal. It would skirt past Niagara Falls, allowing boats to travel between Lake ...
Paradise Falls Keith O’Brien Pantheon, $30. In December 1987, my family moved from sweltering Florida to a snow-crusted island in the Niagara River just north of Buffalo, N.Y.
NIAGARA FALLS — The city that put Love Canal and Superfund in the environmental lexicon may get back into the business of dealing with toxic stew: It’s considering whether to ...
He also notes the area is home to Model City, an unincorporated hamlet related to a failed project by William T. Love to connect the two levels of the Niagara River in the 1890s. The incomplete, ...