Love Canal

By elquick76

  • Love Canal begins

    Love Canal plans to connect the upper and lower part of the Niagara Rivers and generate hydropower.

  • Love Canal sold a public auction

    Became a dumpsite used primarily by Hooker Chemical Corporation

  • Land Sold to Board of Education for $1

    Hooker filled the canal and covered it with dirt and sold.

  • 99th Elementary School was built

  • 800 homes and 240 apartments were buillt

    Homes and apartments were built on toxic land field.

  • Drum Chemicals were found

    Study revealed that toxic chemicals were found in the air.

  • School Closed

    NY State Dept of health found high level of contaminants in soil. Women and children were evacuated.

  • Love Canal Evacuated

    President Jimmy Carter mandates evacuation and clean up.

  • Love Canal Re-opens

    George W Bush reopens parts of Love Canal