The Nation - News from June 2, 1989
Occidental Chemical Corp. has for the first time agreed to take some responsibility for cleaning up chemical contamination at the old Love Canal industrial dump area, officials said. Occidental has signed a consent agreement that calls for it to take over disposal of toxic wastes excavated from two creeks near the neighborhood in Niagara Falls, N.Y. An Occidental subsidiary, Hooker Chemical Co., used an abandoned waterway project as a chemical dump in the 1940s. Homes were built on the covered-over dump in the 1960s. In the 1970s, toxic chemicals began seeping into basements and yards.
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