WHEATFIELD, N.Y. (AP) — New York state plans to excavate Love Canal waste from a western New York landfill, where it was dumped a decade before the notorious Love Canal environmental disaster.
The state Department of Environmental Conservation plans an informational session in the Niagara County town of Wheatfield on Monday.
The DEC says about 1600 cubic yards of toxic industrial waste were dumped at a town-owned landfill in Wheatfield in 1968 during construction of the LaSalle Expressway. A 2013 study found elevated levels of various contaminants.
The Love Canal neighborhood in Niagara Falls was evacuated in 1978 after industrial and chemical waste buried in an underground canal was blamed for serious health problems.
Monday’s informational session starts at 4 p.m. at Wheatfield Community Center.
