In the 1970's, the working-class community in the Love Canal area of Niagara Falls, New York, was evacuated due to deadly chemicals seeping into the environment and harming people and pets. Before that, the Hooker Chemical Company dumped industrial chemicals in the unfinished canal, and capped it only clay. The Niagara Falls City School District was in need of land, so in 1953, Hooker sold the land to them for $1. Homes were built on top of the chemicals and more than 80 industrial chemicals caused mysterious ailments to the citizens. 35 years later, the area is now refurbished and is being sold to buyers looking for cheap homes. 20,000 tons of waste are still buried in Love Canal's center, and in a 2011 sewer excavation, chemicals were found
