A Look At Love Canal And How It Led To Superfund

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Yolanda H

 

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June 2, 2012

 

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The attempt to clean up after these environmental disasters is known as Superfund. To better understand what Superfund is, it is important to know one of the most critical stories of how it began. Around the late 1880’s a man named William T. Love envisioned a perfect, industrialized city. Thomas Edison’s direct current (DC) power was all the rage and Nicola Tesla had not developed a working form of alternating current (AC) power yet...
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Until Tesla developed a system of AC current, DC current was believed to be the only safe way to power the nation. There was a problem with DC current, it can only travel a short distance from the huge generators needed to produce the current (Davis 112). In the short period of time that DC was king and AC wasn’t an option, Love proposed an idea of digging a canal between the upper and lower Niagara River to produce cheap electricity from a man made 280 foot waterfall (Gibbs 21)...
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