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