William T. Love proposed digging a canal in 1892 to connect the upper and lower parts of the Niagara River, called the Love Canal. The canal was never completed, but was used to dump hazardous wastes from 1920-1953.
Books on the Topic
Search the library’s online catalog, Athena, to find books about the Love Canal. (The catalog will only work from one of Hesser College’s five campsues.)
Don’t forget to check the encyclopedias!
Suggested Web Resources
The State University of New York at Buffalo's love canal collection.EPA Love Canal Fact Sheet - A description of the canal and the actions taken to clean it up.
Learning from the Love Canal - A 20th century retrospective of the Love Canal.
New York State Department of Health - A report of the history of the Love Canal, the environmental clean-up, and a chronology.
Love Canal Disaster - An essay about the Love Canal. Love Canal - An Introduction - Multiple sources of information about the Love Canal.
Suggested Journal Resources
Search the journal database, Academic Search Premier, in EBSCOhost, with the following terms to find articles about the Love Canal:
- Love Canal, with the scholarly journals limiter set
For general information about toxic contamination in communities, search “toxic contamination” and “communities”.