University Daily Kansan, August 21, 1980 Page 9
Toxic ghost town . . .
Boarded houses, padlocked gates and a mournful wind mark the modern-day ghost town that once was a thriving suburb of Nigara Falls, N.Y. The neighborhood has been fenced off like a death camp since it was known as a known environmental nightmare.
Little attention was raised a decade ago when a housing project was built at a site where the Hooker Chemical Company had buried toxic wastes. However, poisoned drinking water and contaminated soil soon showed their tragic effects when the number of birth defects in the area skrovetched.
The land has since been purchased by the state and its residents have been forcibly relocated, often adding to the hardship of those families already have endured.
The desolate community that once teemed with life now is in legal limbo as environmentalists debate the region's fate. Other ecological disasters have occurred but none has focused international attention on the continuing problem of toxic chemical waste disposal like the one in the Nixara Falls area.
The angry residents have since been moved, but for the families affected and involved in the nation, the tragedy that was—and is—Love Maral will not be forgotten soon.
Photos by SCOTT HOOKER
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