Box 3
Container
Contains 31 Results:
Love Canal Scrapbook containing newspaper clipping relating to the disaster and trial
File — Box: 3, Folder: 31
Identifier: Folder 31
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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...
Dates:
Created: 1981 - 1996; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1997