"Love Canal Images." New York Heritage. New York
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Heritage Digital Collection
The Hooker Chemical and Plastics Corporation purchased land for their chemical disposal, burying 22,000 tons of waste. Love Canal was turned into a municipal and industrial chemical dump site, which was sold to the city.
(Source: "Love Canal Images." New York Heritage. New York Heritage Digital Collection)
While making her rounds, Lois Gibbs discovered that a large
percentage of people in Love Canal were under doctors' care because of their high white- blood- cell counts, a precursor to leukemia. Other ailments were noted.
(Source:Love Canal Images." New York
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percentage of people in Love Canal were under doctors' care because of their high white- blood- cell counts, a precursor to leukemia. Other ailments were noted.
(Source:Love Canal Images." New York
Heritage. New York Heritage Digital Collection)
"Indicator Chemicals in Air"
"To assess the potential for air contamination in homes in the EDA, ambient and indoor air was sampled at 562 properties for chlorobenzene and chlorotoluenes. Sampling was conducted in four phases from July-December 1987 at different times of the day to account for potential seasonal or diurnal (day-night) effects all air levels.
Chlorobenzene was not detected at any of the properties sampled.
Chlorotoluenes were detected in all unoccupied residence."
(Source: Herdman, Roger C., MD. "Love Canal - Public Health Time Bomb.")
Chlorobenzene was not detected at any of the properties sampled.
Chlorotoluenes were detected in all unoccupied residence."
(Source: Herdman, Roger C., MD. "Love Canal - Public Health Time Bomb.")
"Indicator Chemicals in Soil"
"887 soil samples were collected comparing levels of LCICs in the EDA with levels in similar inhabited communities in western New York that were not close to a chemical landfill. Three comparison areas were chosen (two in Niagara Falls, one in Erie County in the towns of Cheektowaga and Tonawanda.)"
(Source: Herdman, Roger C., MD. "Love Canal - Public Health Time Bomb.")
Love Canal's toxicity levels were, "Off the Chart."
(Source: Herdman, Roger C., MD. "Love Canal - Public Health Time Bomb.")
Love Canal's toxicity levels were, "Off the Chart."