What Is The Love Canal?

     Not many people know of the used-to-be 150-mile excursion that the Glen Canyon had to offer. Not many people know how to sail a raft down a river for a week. Not many people know how to interact with nature and the animals that come with it. We seem to come from a world that is dependent on time and consumed in money. Edward Abbey is what you would call an extreme environmentalist. He talks about how it was an environmental disaster to place a dam in which to create Lake Powell, a reservoir formed on the border of Utah and Arizona. He is one of the few that have actually seen the way Glen Canyon was before they changed it into a reservoir. Today, that lake is used by over a million people, and is one of

|collapsed in the Buffalo Creek Valley. Over 130 million gallons of water and waste material devastated Buffalo Creek's sixteen |

The article from the Huffington Post entitled Welcome to Beautiful Parkersburg, West Virginia: Home to the most brazen, deadly corporate gambits in U.S. history describes the atrocities performed in part by the DuPont chemical plant in West Virginia. The plant was dispersing its hazardous chemicals into the streams and landfills. The hazardous chemical known as C8 was causing extreme health effects to the local residents of the town of Parkersburg. People were getting severely ill and people’s cattle were dying faster than they could be replaced. Yes, these acts were heinous, but the worst of it all was the fact that the company had so much control of the area that they were able to keep doing what they were doing and only face minor penalties if any…sickening. So basically the lesson here is, if you have money and the resources, you can control just about anything. DuPont had both, and that is why they were able to do what they did. C8, or Perfluorooctanoic acid was the chemical that was causing the massive health issues across the state. People were wanting to sue DuPont for the takeoff of C8 being into the water that they were partaking in.

Every time a flood would occur, this town in southern arizona would get destroyed. Water would fill the town, drowning everything we know and love. Something needed to happen, or else we would have to restart yet again. 1875. A possible solution came forth. Don Diego Jaeger had the answers Yuma had been so desperately trying to find. An irrigation canal is what he came up with. A long, narrow trench to catch the flood waters when the Colorado River overflowed. This would also give an efficient use to the surplus water content we were getting. But it did not work out the way he had hoped. He gave up. Although the canal was still built. Finished in 1877, was a 187 feet long trench that could fit a steamboat. Although working, it didn’t bring us the hope we

Spaniards in the sixteenth century came upon it at the wrong time, saw an ocean moving south, and may have been discouraged. Where the delta began, at Old River, the water spread out even more through a palimpsest of bayous and distributary streams in forested palatal basins but this did not dissuade the French. When rivers go over their banks, the spreading water immediately slows up, dropping the heavier sediments. The finer the silt, the farther it is scattered, but so much falls close to the river that natural levees rise through time. In the Mississippi, whatever the arrested logs were called individually, they were all “snags,” and after the Army engineers had made Shreve, a civilian, their Superintendent of Western River Improvements he went around like a dentist yanking snags. People began to wonder if the levees could ever be high enough and strong enough to make the river safe. There was no high command in the fight against the water. Every atom that moves onward in the river, from the moment it leaves its home among the crystal springs or mountain snows, throughout the fifteen hundred leagues of its devious pathway, until it is finally lost in the vast waters of the Gulf, is controlled by laws as fixed and certain as those which direct the majestic march of the heavenly spheres. In 1882 came the most destructive flood of the nineteenth century. After breaking the levees in two hundred and eighty-four crevasses, the water spread out as much as seventy miles. In the fertile lands on the two sides of Old River, plantations were deeply submerged, and livestock survived in flatboats.

toxins in the Love Canal area, action by the local city and state was slow to come. When reports were beginning to show that children were coming down with rare cancers and genetic anomalies, parents demonstrated and went to Albany, burning lawns, and taking political actions.7 The state eventually took action and purchased the polluted properties, and residents were moved to new homes. This also marked the start of extensive federal and state government cleanups of the toxic Love Canal area. This time period saw accountability of large corporations for polluting communities.7

We all know there is something in the water. In June 1969, there was an oil slick on the Cuyahoga River which was a turning point in American attitudes about water pollution. It wasn't the first time a U.S. river had caught fire; the Cuyahoga had already burned nine times since the Civil War but it came at a time when environmental issues were already in the

Since New York City’s daily water consumption relies solely on the Catskill and Delaware watersheds, the Catskill Aqueduct would become the main lifeline to New York once the Delaware aqueduct is shut down. In anticipation of this, the Catskill aqueduct will undergo a repair and rehabilitation project starting in 2016. Along with replacing more than 30 valves that are decades old, the interior lining of the tunnel will be cleaned to reduce friction, increasing the tunnel’s capacity by approximately 30-40 million gallons of water each day. Although sections of the aqueduct are expected to be shut down for six to eight weeks at a time, there would be minimal service disruption due to existing backup supplies for communities who would be otherwise affected (“Water for the Future | Catskill Aqueduct Repair & Rehabilitation”).

The background of this case study is that in 1889 the city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania the South Fork dam north of the town was not inspected or maintained regularly. therefore, the infrastructure

This was serious. Tons of locals could not use the water for hydration, bathing, water sports, washing clothes and pets, etc. So the Clean water Act was established. Too many pollutants including waste from sewers, phosphorus, fertilizers and pesticides were leaking into river. The Clean Water Act controls the amount of industrial dumping. Soon after that, the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was in motion to decrease the amount of accessing pollutants. The agreement was between Canada and the United States to protect the Great Lakes. This process was a million dollar clean-up to improve monitoring water quality and the sewer system.

What is Love? Does anyone really know the meaning of the word? Does it have a different meaning to different people? In Kipnis’s essay “Love Labors”, Laura Kipnis touches on many different aspects of love. This is a touchy subject simply because love brings out many different opinions and beliefs. Kipnis argues over the fact that in order to have a good relationship and love someone people have to be able to meet certain requirements, which are mutuality, communication, and advanced intimacy.

Hooker Chemical drained the canal and lined it with canal to prevent the soon to be deposited barrels of chemicals from leaking. During the period Hooker Chemical used the dump over 21,000 tons of chemical waste. Later on, the company sold the land to the Niagara Falls School Board for $1.00. Immediately afterwards, a series of winters which brought heavy rainfall lead to the leeching of chemicals into creeks, basements, backyards, and the school playground. Consequently, President Jimmy Carter realizing the graveness of the situation, called for a state of emergency, leading to the evacuation of 239 families.2 After the Love Canal Disaster, politicians and the general public alike were inspired to push through laws that would hold the polluters accountable for cleanup of hazardous waste sites and thus, CERCLA was born.

Workers accidentally destroyed the dam holding back the pond, spilling 3,000,000 US gallons (11 ML) of polluted mine waste water and tailings, including heavy metals such as cadmium and lead, and other elements, such as arsenic,[3] into Cement Creek, a tributary of the Animas River in Colorado.[4] The EPA was criticized for not warning Colorado and New Mexico until the day after the waste

There have three public water supply wells were constructed in the late 1970s to provide water for the city of Olean, New York. In 1981, these wells were found to contain trichloroethylene (TCE) and other chlorinated organic solvents at concentrations exceeding federal maximum contaminant levers (MCLs). As a result, these wells were closed. Then the site was included on the National Interim priorities list on the first NPL on September 9, 1983. Between 1981 and 1985, some separate federal-, state- and PRP-led investigations were conducted to find the sources of the contamination to the ground water and evaluate the nature and extent of groundwater contamination at the site.

In 1953, the canal (which had previously been widened to hold more waste) was nearly full, so it was covered over with clay to seal it. As the vicinity around Niagara Falls grew rapidly, Hooker sold the 16-acres of land to the Niagara Falls city school board for $1. However, the deed for the land included a disclaimer that warned that hazardous chemicals were buried on the property and cleared the company of any future responsibility (Levine 11). On the site, the 99th Street Elementary School was constructed along with houses, sewers, and roads. Early signs of the potential hazards were identifiable in the early 1950s, such as uneven fields with sink holes from decomposing barrels, strong odors, skin irritations on children and dogs and a black, oily substance in basements were ignored by the residents of the area. Not until