Ground Water Pollution Incidents



Love Canal, Niagara Falls, NY

Love Canal is probably the country's most notorious and infamous hazardous waste site. It wasn't the first. It wasn't the worst. But it did grab headlines, draw attention, and stimulate scientists, industrial leaders, politicians, government officials, and grassroots activists.

August 2, 1998, marked the 20th anniversary of the evacuation of residents from the Love Canal neighborhood. The Science and Engineering Library at the University at Buffalo provided an exhibit recounting the chemical contamination of Love Canal and what has happened in the 20 years since citizens were evacuated from the site in August ...