Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Love Canal is a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, located in the LaSalle section of the city. It officially covers 36 square blocks in the far southeastern corner of the city, along 99th Street and Read Avenue. Two bodies of water define the northern and southern boundaries of the neighborhood: Bergholtz Creek to the north and the Niagara River one-quarter mile (400 m) to the south. In the mid-1970s Love Canal became the subject of national and international attention after it was revealed in the press that the site had formerly been used to bury 22,000 tons of toxic waste by Hooker Chemical Company (now Occidental Petroleum).Hooker Chemical deeded the site to the Niagara Falls School Board in 1953 for $1 with a liability limitation clause. Long after having taken control of the land the School Board proceeded to have it developed, including construction activity that substantially breached containment structures in a number of ways, allowing previously trapped chemicals to seep out. The resulting breaches combined with particularly heavy rainstorms released and spread the chemical waste, leading to a public health emergency and an urban planning scandal. In what became a test case for liability clauses, Hooker Chemical was found to be \"negligent\" in their disposal of waste, though not reckless in the sale of the land. The dumpsite was discovered and investigated by the local newspaper, the Niagara Falls Gazette, from 1976 through the evacuation in 1978.Ten years after the incident, New York State Health Department Commissioner David Axelrod stated that Love Canal would long be remembered as a \"national symbol of a failure to exercise a sense of concern for future generations\". The Love Canal incident was especially significant as a situation where the inhabitants \"overflowed into the wastes instead of the other way around\"."@en }
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- Love_Canal abstract "Love Canal is a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, located in the LaSalle section of the city. It officially covers 36 square blocks in the far southeastern corner of the city, along 99th Street and Read Avenue. Two bodies of water define the northern and southern boundaries of the neighborhood: Bergholtz Creek to the north and the Niagara River one-quarter mile (400 m) to the south. In the mid-1970s Love Canal became the subject of national and international attention after it was revealed in the press that the site had formerly been used to bury 22,000 tons of toxic waste by Hooker Chemical Company (now Occidental Petroleum).Hooker Chemical deeded the site to the Niagara Falls School Board in 1953 for $1 with a liability limitation clause. Long after having taken control of the land the School Board proceeded to have it developed, including construction activity that substantially breached containment structures in a number of ways, allowing previously trapped chemicals to seep out. The resulting breaches combined with particularly heavy rainstorms released and spread the chemical waste, leading to a public health emergency and an urban planning scandal. In what became a test case for liability clauses, Hooker Chemical was found to be \"negligent\" in their disposal of waste, though not reckless in the sale of the land. The dumpsite was discovered and investigated by the local newspaper, the Niagara Falls Gazette, from 1976 through the evacuation in 1978.Ten years after the incident, New York State Health Department Commissioner David Axelrod stated that Love Canal would long be remembered as a \"national symbol of a failure to exercise a sense of concern for future generations\". The Love Canal incident was especially significant as a situation where the inhabitants \"overflowed into the wastes instead of the other way around\".".