Subsequently, the federal government passed the Superfund law. This event displaced numerous families, leaving them with longstanding health issues and symptoms of high white blood cell counts and leukemia.
Over the next three decades, it attracted national attention for the public health problems originating from the former dumping of toxic waste on the grounds. Love Canal was sold to the local school district in 1953, after the threat of eminent domain. During the 1940s, the canal was purchased by Hooker Chemical Company, which used the site to dump 19,800 t (19,500 long tons 21,800 short tons) of chemical byproducts from the manufacturing of dyes, perfumes, and solvents for rubber and synthetic resins. In the 1920s, the canal became a dump site for municipal refuse for the city of Niagara Falls. In 1890, Love Canal was created as a model planned community, but was only partially developed. Decades of dumping toxic chemicals killed residents and harmed the health of hundreds, often profoundly the area was cleaned up over the course of 21 years in a Superfund operation. Love Canal is a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, United States, infamous as the location of a 0.28 km 2 (0.11 sq mi) landfill that became the site of an enormous environmental disaster in the 1970s.
