Love Canal / Penelope Ploughman, PhD, JD.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ploughman, Penelope, 1955- Author.

Series:

Images of America.

Images of America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love Canal Chemical Waste Landfill (Niagara Falls, N.Y.)--Pictorial works.

Love Canal Chemical Waste Landfill (Niagara Falls, N.Y.).

Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)--Buildings, structures, etc--Pictorial works.

Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.).

Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)--Environmental conditions.

Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)--History--Pictorial works.

Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (127 pages) : chiefly illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Charleston, SC : Arcadia Pub., [2013]

Summary:

Love Canal originated in 1894 as part of William T. Love's dream to build a model city and power canal. The neighborhood emerged in the 1970s as an environmental nightmare and harbinger of the worldwide hazardous waste crisis. Photographs in Love Canal tell the story of the community's early development and the subsequent use of the canal by Hooker Electrochemical Company to discard industrial chemical waste from 1942 to 1953. In the late 1970s, the seemingly dormant dump began to leak, and residents found themselves in a slowly unfolding nightmare, learning that the waste dumped in the canal decades before was not simply garbage but actually a toxic brew of dangerous chemicals that were hazardous to life, health, and property.

Contents:

Harnessing Niagara : the beginning

William T. Love's dream : 1893-1912

Sowing the seeds of a nightmare : 1913-1952

American dream : 1953-1975

The nightmare unfolds : 1976-May 1978

Awakening, awareness, and response : June 1978-October 1980

Neighborhood revitalization : 1981-2012

Lessons of Love Canal : the future.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 127).

OCLC:

884577473