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6 pages in length. Lessons learned from the hazardous waste incident at Love Canal were ones that did not need to be taught; rather, there was no learning curve involved with knowing that building a community on top of a defunct waste site had the potential - if not sooner than most certainly later - to become an environmental disaster of massive proportions. That such a lesson would need be taught to developers is unsettling on its own; to have developers make the conscious decision to place myriad families directly in harms way for the benefit of a buck speaks to a breach of ethics no amount of remuneration could rectify but that a handful of new legislation could attempt to prevent in the future. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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on top of a defunct waste site had the potential - if not sooner than most certainly later - to become an environmental disaster of massive proportions. That such
a lesson would need be taught to developers is unsettling on its own; to have developers make the conscious decision to place myriad families directly in harms way for the
benefit of a buck speaks to a breach of ethics no amount of remuneration could rectify but that a handful of new legislation could attempt to prevent in the future.
II. BACKGROUND Love Canals legacy was originally planned to be one of the most energy-efficient communities in the nation whereby energy consumption was fed by way of harnessed hydropower
from Niagara Falls. However, developer William T. Love was unexpectedly trumped by the discovery of "how to economically transmit electricity over great distances by means of an alternating current"
(Beck, 1979), which served to collapse the entire project. Love sold the land and along with it the enchanted community he had long envisioned. By the early 1950s,
after Loves failed dream had been a municipal and industrial chemical dumpsite for the previous decades, owner/operator Hooker Chemical Company "covered the canal with earth and sold it to the
city for one dollar" (Beck, 1979). Shortly thereafter a residential community and school sprouted up and became an inkling of what Love had originally envisioned; however, twenty years later
- after a particularly torrential rainfall, families in the nearly one hundred homes stared in disbelief as the ground swelled up and oozed decades worth of leaching toxic chemicals right
in their own backyards (Beck, 1979). Two of the chemicals most prevalent in the Love Canal incident - benzene and chlorine - were particularly damaging to the people who lived
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