☢️Driving through Love Canal an abandoned toxic waste dump in Niagara Falls New York 6/11/2024☢️

[@milfordcivic6755]

I've watched so many documentaries about this. It's just crazy that Hooker and the Love Canal school board thought it was a good idea to build on this land. So many people died because of the incompetence and sheer greed of Hooker chemical. Not to mention the other chemical waste landfills they had all over the area.

[@TheBeautifulGoldenHour]

Yes I took an interest in this for years and also watched documentaries on it as well . It’s very sad and I remember the very first time someone actually showed me love canal was in 1994!! It was super creepy with abandoned homes with items left all around from the 70’s outside and some houses had lights on inside too .. frozen in time . Now those homes were torn down when I seen it again like 20 years ago .

[@roseannhirsch6784]

77th and 78th Streets are not in Love Canal. They are 1.8 miles away. Your tour is incomplete. You should have turned right onto Frontier Ave. instead of going straight through the underpass. You would have passed 101st and reached 100th which is blocked to traffic. Next to 100th Street is a fenced-in area with about an 8-foot rise in the center. That is Love Canal. There are no signs on the fencing to indicate that the containment area is a hazardous waste dump. Only signs that say private property no trespassing. Within these boundaries are 99th and 97th Streets, obliterated inside the containment area. The houses there and the 99th Street School were torn down and buried within the canal along with all the metal chemical-filled drums. If you had turned down 101st Street you would have found three occupied houses. The street you thought was an old driveway is Wheatfield Street and it went from 102nd Street, crossed over 101st and 100th Streets to 99th Street where the school was on the right. That portion of Wheatfield Street was absorbed into the containment area. When you reach the end of 101st Street and make a left onto Colvin, you would have driven past 100th Street, blocked to traffic, and what is left of 99th St. Next is a fence on your left, part of the containment area. The next street on the left is 96th Street. It deadends at the containment fence. The two occupied houses on this street back up to the containment fence. Across the street is a playground which is shocking. Then you had to turn around, go back to Colvin, and make a left. The next street on the left is 95th Street. This street winds through a field where an affordable housing complex once stood. Like the houses on the other streets, the complex was torn down and buried in the ground. You can still see the aprons of the short driveways leading to the parking lots of each unit. There were 12 units combined on 95th Street, Frontier Ave., Read Avenue, and 93rd Street. As you drive on 95th you will see the containment fence on your left and behind it, the treatment plant, and several testing wells sticking out of the ground. Continuing on you will notice sections of sidewalks still there to indicate where the lost homes were. You will come to Read Avenue on the right. Read is blocked off at both ends so you can no longer drive down it, but you can walk it. On the corner of 95th and Frontier Avenue is a senior citizen housing complex. These seniors claim they didn't know they had moved into a place right across the street from Love Canal. This was built long after the evacuation. On the other side of Colvin is a section of the area now called Black Creek Village. Two hundred and thirty homes in this section were evacuated although a few people stayed. Some moved back within a year after the evacuation. The houses in Black Creek were remediated, supposedly cleaned up, repainted, resided, and sold to unsuspecting people. Although with all the media coverage I don't understand how people didn't know they were buying houses so close to Love Canal. Now these residents are experiencing unexplained illnesses, miscarriages, and birth defects, the same as the people who left the first time. It's happening again. Or still. The area you entered under the expressway bridge is still part of the neighborhood. Across from the stop sign on 102nd and Buffalo Ave, or River Road is another containment area. Going right you see a new walking trail on a site where more houses were evacuated, torn down, and buried. This section of the area is seldom talked about. I don't know how many drums of chemicals are buried in the containment area beside the river. I do know that the houses where the walking trail is now were affected after the expressway was built, the ground was disturbed, and the original containment cap was pierced during construction. Griffon Park is next to the riverside containment area and has playgrounds, a trail where people often walk their dogs, and a boat launch. it is directly on a small section of the Niagara River we call the Little River. You would be amazed how many people come to this park. Had you turned around and gone back, you would have seen more on your tour. You only saw a small part of it and you drove through too fast. Perhaps you can return another time and take a more in-depth tour.

[@TheBeautifulGoldenHour]

Thank you for all the info . Yeah my husband and I were in sort of a hurry . I have been down many years ago in the early 90’s on some of those streets you had mentioned . I know there is a lot to see and will return sometime . That’s horrible that the new residents are suffering now . I would never trust that area to be safe again . I was a toddler in late 70’s when this was all happening . Have watched documentaries on it .. I have seen that abandoned school for the first trip down there in 1994 was quite eerie all fenced off .

[@avalon1108]

I recently watched PBS - Poisoned Ground - The Tragedy at Love Canal. It was sickening the way doctors and politicians downplayed that debacle.

[@TheBeautifulGoldenHour]

Very sad indeed.

[@jasonwilliams6005]

Should have seen it in the 90s. Abandoned homes everywhere

[@TheBeautifulGoldenHour]

I seen it for the first time in 1994. That was very creepy like a time capsule frozen in time from 70’s . Stuff was left outside from the 70’s too .. never saw anything like that and the school too ..

[@leogewoon]

waw. insane what happend there. its a ghost town now.

[@TheBeautifulGoldenHour]

You should have seen it in 1994 wow totally frozen in time with stuff from the 70’s in the front yards and carports .. really creepy that is when I saw Love Canal the first time .most of those homes still standing back in the 90’s were torn down . Definitely a frozen time capsule .