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searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds. Hello and welcome to the Witness History podcast from the BBC World Service

each day first-hand accounts of events that shaped our world. I'm Frahana Hiver and today

we go back to the late 1970s and the discovery of toxic chemicals oozing from the

ground in a neighborhood in upstate New York that triggered an environmental battle which went on to become one of the most iconic in US history.

The neighborhood called Love Canal in the city of Niagara Falls had been built on top of over 20,000 tons of toxic industrial waste.

That discovery led the residents into a three-year battle to protect their families from

the hazardous waste buried in their backyards.

My street had 15 houses on it.

And out of that 15 houses, there were nine with mastectomies. The only thing we could do was to keep fighting.

We had an ultimate goal and that ultimate goal was to be evacuated and we would not accept

anything less than that.

Luella Kenny had moved into the Love Canal neighborhood with her young family in 1969.

She first became aware of the existence of hazardous waste in her neighborhood

after reading newspaper articles describing some of the

background to the area. The summer of 1978 I started seeing articles in the

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