"Some public officials regarded the discovery as just another day in Niagara Falls, a city with a decades long legacy of toxic pollution." "Hey, this is Western New York. You dig in something that was put down in the 1940s or 1950s, you might find something you didn't expect," Niagara Falls City Planner Thomas DeSantis said. "Usually, it's not anything particularly hazardous." "They buried stuff back in the day without any rules," said DeSantis said. "This stuff turns up everywhere."