Love Canal

101st Street

It's quite a remarkable contrast to the developed neighborhoods surrounding it, where dozens of houses and cars would line the streets.

Taken on Thursday September 25, 2008 at Love Canal.

Love Canal 1949

This historical Grand Island Topographic Map from 1949 shows the canal as still having water in it. 

Residents say Love Canal chemicals continue to make them sick

Forty years ago this week, President Jimmy Carter declared Love Canal a national health emergency when the small community near Niagara Falls, New York, learned that their homes and school were built on 22,000 tons of chemicals. Today, many residents in the area, which was deemed safe by authorities, claim to be facing health problems. Megan Thompson reports.