History Of The Love Canal

The W.R. Grace Company, Riley Eannery, and Unifirst Corporation were prominent factories in Wobourn. Jan speculated they were to have illegally dumped a dangerous carcinogen known as TCE into the ground, sewer, and water systems of the Woborn community. These poisons were thought by Jan, and the community, to have polluted two water wells that acted as a water supply for the community. Many of the people who worked at the factories experienced many medical problems such as cancer and died at young ages. Community members experienced numerous medial problems such as flu-like symptoms, memory loss, cancers, leukemia, burning eyes, and skin, and death. The water over the years was said to have gone from natural, to smelling, to dark and dangerous.

Completed in 1825, the Erie Canal connected Lake Erie to Hudson River, running 363 miles across NY. The purpose of the canal is to connect the NE and NW. Because of the canal, NY grew quickly in population. Also, improved the value of the farmland in the great Lakes are. Erie Canal helped make NYC the nation’s greatest commercial center.

Anderson and the other families were not concerned about the money they would receive if they would have won the case. They were more concerned with finding out who did this and they wanted an apology, Anderson states, “I want somebody to come to my house and say "we're responsible we did this, we didn't mean it, but we did it and we're sorry"” [1]. When Schlichtmann informed Anderson about the money they lost from pursuing the case she responded with, “How can you even begin to compare what you've lost, to what we've lost,” she was only looking for an apology and they turned it into the want for money [1]. The plaintiffs' case against W.R. Grace was stronger for two reasons: Schlichtmann had a personal testimony of a former employee of W.R. Grace who had witnessed dumping, and a river between Beatrice's tannery and the contaminated wells made their contribution to the contamination less plausible. However, the Judge dismissed the case against Beatrice Foods. Schlichtmann took both companies to appeal court, “only five cases in fifty will win an appeal the odds are as easy to calculate as they are discouraging,”[1].which ended in both companies being shut down and 69.4 million dollars in clean-up costs for both companies as

In the last four years New York City taxpayers have paid out approximately $1 billion in awards for personal injury actions. Well over half of that amount was attributable to “pain and suffering,” a highly subjective and amorphous concept, as opposed to economic damages such as lost earnings or medical expenses. Of the total amount paid, 33 to 40 percent went to attorneys in the form of contingency fees or to experts or other in reimbursements for expenses. In FY 1977 the City’s total payout in tort actions was less than $25 million compared to $120 million in FY 1987 a mere ten year difference, and a staggering $282 million for FY 1996. Would you believe half of that money could have been used to hire 2,800 police officers or over 3,600 teachers? The time for corrective legislative action for New York has come.

The game had 2:14 left when the Indians faced a fourth and three and once again they elected to go for it. This time the decision was made good when,Tanner Conley picked up 10-yards on a run right up the gut. A 24-yard field goal from Thompson gave the Indians a 24-14 lead.

During 1819 the nation experienced its first financial crisis signifying a transition from colonial commercial status with Europe toward an independent economy, Pushing Americans to reconsider transportation. By 1825, the Erie Canal was finalized to much amazement from the world. Viewed as a symbol of American prosperity and civil engineering ingenuity, the grid of canals spanned across the nation transforming commerce and manufacturing. Meanwhile trade began populating the west via its

The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal was chartered in 1825 (Chesapeake). The canal runs from Georgetown all the way to the Ohio River in Pennsylvania. It is known as one of the best canals ever built. Eventually the canal was taken over by the government and declared as a national monument by President Eisenhower (Chesapeake). The C&O canal is in Georgetown, Virginia. It is parallel to the Chesapeake River. Georgetown is a little town in the city of Washington D.C. This part of Virginia is always very busy. This site tells me that the occupants have a very busy lifestyle and that they are of the upper class. This site could be used by many different people. For example, if someone has fur and it needed to be transported over to

The Miami and Erie Canal ran about 274 miles through Ohio. It was constructed from Cincinnati, Ohio to Toledo to create a water route from the Ohio River to Lake Erie. Construction of the Miami-Erie Canal began in 1825 and the construction was completed in 1845. It cost the state government $8,062,680.07 to build this canal.

In 1953, Hooker Chemical sold this dump site, which it attempted to fix by covering with layers of red impermeable clay, to the Niagra Falls School Board for the amount of $1, due to the knowledge of the harmful toxins within the ground, against their better judgement. In fact, a deed was drawn up and included in the sale documents, which detailed the extremely dangerous chemicals that were present in the ground, and not one cent of profit was gained from the sale. Many lawsuits later ensued, thanks in part to one woman who went on a crusade to save the neighborhood residents, and their children by exposing all of the harmful details to the public.

In 1836, Bridgeport was born out of the construction of the Illinois and Michigan Canal. This alone “guaranteed Bridgeport 's position as an industrial center,” as it encouraged the creation of lumberyards, manufacturing plants, and packing houses (Bridgeport, Encyclopedia of Chicago, 1). Due to the steady access to employment, many immigrants settled and searched for work in the neighborhood. This translated into a growing foreign ‘white’ population as it “stood as a bastion of white ethnic communities” (1). The population consisted of mostly Irish, German, Norwegian, and Polish immigrants. Most residents had primarily resigned to working within local industry with many individuals, particularly the Irish, saw opportunities for upward mobility through work in municipal government (1). This turned Bridgeport into a political hub producing many individuals that “dominated city government” and most notoriously gave birth to Mayor Richard J. Daley, “[who] controlled one of the most powerful machines in urban America [from 1955] until his death in 1976 (1). However, it was not until the 1960s that Bridgeport experienced a small influx [.02%] of black families moving into the neighborhood (1). By this time “the Supreme Court of the United States declared restrictive covenants unenforceable in the courts…[and] change in Chicago race relations had been hastened by the national trend toward desegregation and ‘integration’” (St. Clair Drake and Cayton, 1607,

I have attached two panoramic images of the city Cleveland, Ohio, focusing on the lake that it sits off of known as lake erie which is the big body of water you see sitting off of the north border of the city, and the Ohio river which the lake feeds into and runs throughout the city branching off into other lands. This was once known as the Ohio and Erie canal in the late 1820's Which was the northern terminus of the canal system in the early 1930's.

Before steamboats and railroads it was really hard to transport any kind of goods. The only way goods could be transport was though sea. When the Erie Canal was built it brought many benefits to New York. People would travel in large boats through the Erie Canal. It was indeed one of the most important ways of transportation in the sea for New York City. It helped populate the country better for being well known for their selling products. The Erie Canal brought up the economy with their different products. Some of the products included crops, animal meat, and domestic products etc. New York City was the center of money, business, and trading. Therefore, the Erie Canal was a great resource to make all the trading possible. The Erie Canal was

The driving force behind the Erie Canal was Governor Dewitt Clinton of New York. The purpose was to connect the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean through the Hudson River. Because there were not yet any railroads, shipping goods west was very costly and could take as long as two weeks. Construction began in 1817 with thousands of workers, including local farmers, New England migrants, and foreign immigrants, starting the digging. These workers were paid approximately $10 per month and had to work with very primitive, basic tools while doing most of the digging by hand. The Erie Canal was finally completed on October 26, 1825 with settlers almost immediately coming in to New York, Michigan, Illinois, and Ohio. The completion allowed goods

A beautiful city, Niagara Falls in the state of New York, ruined by careless decisions of the city of Niagara Falls and The Hooker Chemical Company. Families suffered and died from several of diseases cause by toxic waste that was place underground near homes and schools. A mother, Louis Gibbs who lived near the Love Canal said, “ When I brought this American dream home my son was one and very healthy. Then he started to get very ill and experiences some liver problems, asthma, and then epilepsy. I could not understand, they came one after another, until I read a series written by Mr. Michael Brown, who explained that the Love Canal has toxic waste underneath the neighborhood school and it leaches in resident homes.” She continued on by

The idea of an artificial river, otherwise known as the Erie Canal, broke ground in the year 1817. Many marveled at the ease and complexity the Canal provided, linking a series of port towns together for trade. The Canal brought an economic boom, along with a boost in moral from the New Yorkers living and working along the route. However in an effort to not change the rural lifestyles of those within the Canal route, a “Paradox of Progress” was set into place, according to the author of “The Artificial River”, Carol Sheriff. While the Canal developed, America itself was still in its early stages of coming together and establishing means of life as well. An idea of “Free Republican Men” spread throughout the states, especially in New York, where this sense of freedom applied to all except the Irish immigrants working themselves to death building the Canal itself. This Artificial River represented a false sense of freedom, a boost of moral, and the true meaning of the words “business man”.