Paradise Falls – book to read

My sister sent me this book last week. I can’t recommend it enough! It’s a true account about Love Canal and the environmental disaster that ensured from the chemical dumping that occurred there. We grew up < 15 miles from the location in the 1970s-1980s and had heard about it and knew of the location. It was just a couple blocks away from the Summit Park Mall, the closest mall we had at the time.

Chemical contamination was nothing new to us, we lived down the street from the LOOW (Lake Ontario Ordnance Works) site where radioactive (and other waste) from the Manhattan project was stored and had radon detectors in our house and yard that were monitored. It’s a wonder we don’t all glow 🙁 …

I remember my mother and a few neighbors would always go to the Town hall meetings to try and get something done to ensure our safety. The school we went to was right next to the LOOW site as well. I’m attaching a paper I wrote on it from a class I took at Niagara University if you are interested in reading it.