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History Love Canal was named after its creator William T. Love and its construction began in the 1890s (http://onlineethics.org/environment/lcanal/timeline.html). The project was never finished and an extremely large, seemingly useless hole was left in the ground in the Niagara Falls area. Almost 40 years later, when the area of Niagara Falls began to industrialize, a use for this gaping hole was found. Different businesses and industrial corporations started to manufacture …

…known safe limit of exposure to chemicals or anything else the question is whether or not the safety risk is worth taking and that is something that each individual has to decide for themselves. In the meantime, it is up to companies, such as Hooker and the government, like the EPA or Department of Health to maintain safe production limits and methods of disposal, so that another such disaster can be avoided in the future.