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Mortality among former Love Canal residents [1]

The Love Canal is a rectangular 16-acre, 10-ft deep chemical waste landfill situated in a residential neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York. This seriously contaminated site first came to public attention in 1978. No studies have examined mortality in the former residents of the Love Canal neighborhood (LC). The aim of this study was to describe the mortality experience of the former LC residents from the years 1979

Publication Date: 
01/02/2009
Lenore J. Gensburg [2], Cristian Pantea [3], Edward Fitzgerald & et al [4]
Environmental Health Perspectives [5]
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Tags:
Water Pollution [6], Indoor Air Pollution [7], Health Effects [8], Landfill [9], Hazardous Waste [10], United States Of America (US) [11]
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