Love Canal Cruise - Containment Area

Cruise around the Love Canal containment area in Niagara Falls, New York. There are approximately 44 million pounds of chemical wastes, 237 contaminated homes and an elementary school buried inside the containment area, which were covered with clay, a 40 acre high-density polyethylene liner, topsoil and grass.


This video is dedicated to thousands affected by this tragedy who lost their homes, health, marriages, children, families, friends, and those who continue to live with the consequences today...

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Love
• Canal
• Disaster
• Niagara
• Falls
• Buffalo
• New
• York
• Chemical
• EPA
• Environment
• Evacuation
• 1978
• 1979
• 1980
• LaSalle
• Wheatfield
• Frontier

[SuperHockeyguy14]

I live about a mile from here, The streets you taped are part of my morning jog. The place is just surreal. Not to mention the handful of dilapidated houses that still dot the outskirts of the confinement area.

[LakeNipissing]

@SuperHockeyguy14 Surreal is right. When walking on the overgrown sidewalks on 100th St., past what remains of old driveways, it is a strange sight to find chives and other herbs and perennials, which were once part of family gardens growing in patches of what would otherwise be an overgrown field of grass and weeds. The Love Canal neighborhood is one of the few examples of a reversal of civilization.

[LakeNipissing]

Google Maps has a street view of the Love Canal neighborhood.

Copy this address:

577 100th Street, Niagara Falls, NY, United States

Go to the Google Maps web page and paste the copied address in the 'Search Maps' field.

Then click STREET VIEW.

Now you can tour the area yourself.

[spiritofwicca]

What happened to all the houses?  Were they all demolished?

[LakeNipissing]

@spiritofwicca The 237 houses from the inner ring of 97th and 99th streets and the 99th steet elementary school were demolished and then buried under the grass-covered clay dome which covers the canal chemicals.

[MondoBeno]

The owners of the canal WARNED the town that there was toxic waste down there. They brought in an expert to convince the school not to build on the site. But the school board wouldn't listen.

People think it was the fault of Hooker Chemicals. But they all forget that it was Hooker that warned everyone DON"T BUILD ON THE CANAL SITE!

[soylentcereal]

I see it was too late to save you from the chemical poisoning...

[AIRSOFTzombie27]

@victor856 yeah it is dumbass

[AIRSOFTzombie27]

@MondoBeno and we need to listen to ppl. they built a fuckin school on a chemical dump.

i agree with u all the way man

[IRAMightyPirate]

@MondoBeno Props for bringing this to peoples attention, the school board was the real criminals.

[victor856]

@poppajah the falls really aint as bad as you might think

[ruixi111]

the trees still live!