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Article: The big sleazy: Love Canal ten years later.
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- The Washington Monthly
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- September 1, 1988
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For the residents of Love Canal, it was bad enough dealing with 21,800 tons of toxic ooze. Then they had to deal with the bureaucrats.
"The cap" is a masterpiece of engineering understatement. From the comer of Frontier Avenue and tooth Street, it appears to be nothing more than a huge expanse of turf, gently mounded toward the center. Even the brick building on the other side hardly seems intrusive. No doubt it's the groundskeeper's shop.
Visitors don't immediately grasp the significance, says Joann Hale, whose house is buried along with 236 others beneath "the cap," That's why she takes guests around to the opposite comer, the one farthest in ...