Suits claim Love Canal still oozing 35 years later

[unhappycamper]

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Suits claim Love Canal still oozing 35 years later
By CAROLYN THOMPSON
Nov 2, 12:45 PM EDT

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) -- Thirty-five years after Love Canal's oozing toxic waste scared away a neighborhood and became a symbol of environmental catastrophe, history could be repeating itself.

New residents, attracted by promises of cleaned-up land and affordable homes, say in lawsuits that they are being sickened by the same buried chemicals from the disaster in the Niagara Falls neighborhood in the 1970s.

"We're stuck here. We want to get out," said 34-year-old Dan Reynolds, adding that he's been plagued by mysterious rashes and other ailments since he moved into the four-bedroom home purchased a decade ago for $39,900.

His wife, Teresa, said she's had two miscarriages and numerous unexplained cysts.

[PDJane]

1. Yes. And it was predicted in the 1960s.

And the damn stuff leaks into the Great Lakes, which is particularly disturbing. Now they want to put a nuclear waste repository on the shores of Lake Huron, which isn't a particularly brilliant scheme.