Residents of the Niagara Falls, N.Y. neighborhood, Love Canal, noticed strange odors and liquid seeping from the ground. Their children frequently got sick and there was an elevated rate of miscarriages and birth defects. In 1978, reporters discovered that the neighborhood was built on top of a chemical waste dump with 21,800 tons of chemical waste.
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3. Love Canal, 1978
