The Nation - News from Feb. 21, 1986
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Environmental Protection Agency tests at an Olin Corp. toxic waste dump on 102nd Street in Niagara Falls, N.Y., found the dangerous chemical dioxin at 630 times the level needed for federal action, officials said. But an EPA spokesman said there is no immediate health threat because the buried dioxin is not moving and no one lives on top of the site. The 22-acre dump has the highest levels of the deadly compound found in the Niagara frontier with Canada, the officials said.
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