Scope and Contents ILLINOIS STATECRAFT Klassen, chief sanitary engineer for the state of Illinois 1935-1970 and the first director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, discusses the evolution of environmental policy and controls in the state: employment with the Department of Public Health, sanitation problems and epidemics in the state, repercussions from the 1937 Ohio River flood, creation of the Sanitary Water Board, environmental programs and measures, pollution legislation, contributions to...

Scope and Contents Chief Sanitary Engineer for the State of Illinois, 1935-1970, first director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and environmental consultant. Served as an expert witness at a trial, 1979-1994, regarding the dumping of toxic wastes at Love Canal in Niagara Falls, New York. Love Canal was dug in the 1890s, used as a chemical dump, and later filled in and developed for housing. The area was declared unsafe and 239 families were evacuated in 1978. The Federal Government, State of...