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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (327174)2/23/2007 8:55:40 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 1575698
 
It was a sell-off of responsibility by the chemical company.

They were pressured in to giving up the land with the chemicals, and tried to restrict the future use of the land, but their attempts at restriction it where rejected by the school board.

Those drums of poison didn't belong there in the first place. They should have been detoxified.

They took more care with the wastes than was either customary, or legally required. Detoxification isn't always possible, esp considering where talking about WWII technology, not today when people are a lot more concerned about such chemicals and have developed techniques and technologies for dealing with them.

Its not like the chemicals where dumped in 2007. They where placed in the canal in 1942.

"...The 3,200-foot-long section that Hooker started filling with waste chemicals in 1942 has now come to be known internationally as the Love Canal.

Hooker says that it chose the site because the soil characteristic of the area–impermeable clay–and the sparse population surrounding the Canal at the time made the pit outstandingly suitable for disposing of dangerous chemical wastes. The customary practices then were to pile up such wastes in unlined surface impoundments, insecure lagoons, or pits, usually on the premises of the chemical factory, or else to burn the wastes or dump them into rivers or lakes. Except for disposal into water supplies, these practices were all legal until 1980, when the Environmental Protection Agency began issuing regulations implementing the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976...."

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