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The history of the Love Canal and Hooker Chemical Company. Hooker Chemical Company presentation before and after the fall out of the Love Canal
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Hooker Chemical Company
• Sold to the city in 1920’s• City dump site
• Hooker Chemical & Plastics in 1942• Granted permission to use as a dump site• Dumped over 22,000 tons of chemical waste into the
Love canal in 10 years
Niagara Fall Board of Education
• Rapid growing district• Showed interest at the property• Hooker Co. reluctant to sell the land– Saying it was unsafe
Sale of the Site
• Niagara Fall BOE threaten to condemnation of the canal
• Hooker Chemical company covered the canal with dust and clay and sold it for $1 with
• School and homes were built on top of canal