Beverly Paigen a dedicated advisor disscusses the consequences experienced at Love Canal, from improper disposal of Hazardous wastes. This first became an issue in the 1970's, where chemicals such as PCBS and dioxins were leaking into the basement of peoples homes and into schools. Specifically in 1942, love canal was filled with 21000 tons of around 200 different chemicals. Schools and homes were built on the site, and caused people to become ill. Paigen did a study to understand the exposure of chemicals in many ways;
if illness's were clusted in families is this because this specific family has a low tolerance to chemicals? If the illness's were geographically clustered, is this possibly because the chemicals have migrated to specific areas? And if illness's were random is there no relation? Paigen found that birth defects and miscarriages became much more common in 'wet homes.'
