Love Canal
This research paper summarized one of the most famous environmental disasters that happened at the Love Canal, a popular tourist attraction in the late 1970s. In this mini case study paper, the background of Love Canal, the main issue caused this tragedy, the actions taken by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) along with the outcomes, and the resulting effects on the health of the population exposed at Love Canal and the tragedy will be mainly discussed.
In 1978, Love Canal near Niagara Falls in upstate New York was seen as a beautiful river, which wind around the hundreds of houses and schools. The clam was shattered. A child’s mother suddenly found her son appeared asthma, pneumonia, urethral abnormality and …show more content…
This year, Love Canal had an even harder time. Hooker Electrochemical Company discovered that the vast abandoned channel of Love Canal from Niagara Power was an ideal place to dump industrial wastes. Then they bought the canal area and got the permission to utilize the canal excavation for industrial wastes including pesticide residues, process slurries, and waste solvents. By the end of 1953, Hooker had dumped 22,000 tons of industrial wastes (alkaline substances, halogenated hydrocarbons, and dyestuffs). At the same time, the city of Niagara Falls and the United States Army have been using this site dumping garbage until the end of 1948 (Brown, …show more content…
Rings 1 and Rings 2 were used to represent these two areas, respectively. Table 1 shows the chemical compound concentration existing in the air of the basements of the homes in Rings 1 and Rings 2 (New York State Department of Health, 1978). Chloroform, trichloroethene, tetrachloroethene, chlorobenzene, and chlorotoluene are the five compounds present in Table 1. The concentration of ten chemical compounds are described taken from the air of the basements of the homes located at the peripheral of the Love Canal area in Table 2 (New York State Department of Health, 1978). The effects on the health of the population exposed at the Love Canal based on the chemicals identified from Table 1 and 2 are described in Table 3 (New York State Department of Health, 1978). According to Table 3, the chemicals found from the Love Canal site can be detrimental to the human heath for those who live in the polluted area. Five days after the issue of the second health order, Present Jimmy Carter declared a federal state of emergency at the Love Canal site. That was first ever for a technological hazard (Silverman,
This research paper summarized one of the most famous environmental disasters that happened at the Love Canal, a popular tourist attraction in the late 1970s. In this mini case study paper, the background of Love Canal, the main issue caused this tragedy, the actions taken by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) along with the outcomes, and the resulting effects on the health of the population exposed at Love Canal and the tragedy will be mainly discussed.
In 1978, Love Canal near Niagara Falls in upstate New York was seen as a beautiful river, which wind around the hundreds of houses and schools. The clam was shattered. A child’s mother suddenly found her son appeared asthma, pneumonia, urethral abnormality and …show more content…
This year, Love Canal had an even harder time. Hooker Electrochemical Company discovered that the vast abandoned channel of Love Canal from Niagara Power was an ideal place to dump industrial wastes. Then they bought the canal area and got the permission to utilize the canal excavation for industrial wastes including pesticide residues, process slurries, and waste solvents. By the end of 1953, Hooker had dumped 22,000 tons of industrial wastes (alkaline substances, halogenated hydrocarbons, and dyestuffs). At the same time, the city of Niagara Falls and the United States Army have been using this site dumping garbage until the end of 1948 (Brown, …show more content…
Rings 1 and Rings 2 were used to represent these two areas, respectively. Table 1 shows the chemical compound concentration existing in the air of the basements of the homes in Rings 1 and Rings 2 (New York State Department of Health, 1978). Chloroform, trichloroethene, tetrachloroethene, chlorobenzene, and chlorotoluene are the five compounds present in Table 1. The concentration of ten chemical compounds are described taken from the air of the basements of the homes located at the peripheral of the Love Canal area in Table 2 (New York State Department of Health, 1978). The effects on the health of the population exposed at the Love Canal based on the chemicals identified from Table 1 and 2 are described in Table 3 (New York State Department of Health, 1978). According to Table 3, the chemicals found from the Love Canal site can be detrimental to the human heath for those who live in the polluted area. Five days after the issue of the second health order, Present Jimmy Carter declared a federal state of emergency at the Love Canal site. That was first ever for a technological hazard (Silverman,