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[Description and dates], Box/folder number, 22/3F/1113, Adeline Levine Love Canal Research Materials (Part II), 1980-1991, University Archives, The State University of New York at Buffalo.
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Acquisition InformationThe collection was originally donated by Adeline Levine to the University at Buffalo Law Library. It was later transferred to the University Archives in 2003. One carton of material came from Barry Boyer.
Terms of AccessAdeline Levine Love Canal Research Materials (Part II) are open for research.
CopyrightCopyright of papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns. Researchers must obtain the written permission of the holder(s) of copyright and the University Archives before publishing quotations from materials in the collection. Most papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures unless otherwise specified.
Processing InformationCollection processed by: Nathan Tallman, November 2007
Accruals and AdditionsNo further accruals are expected to this collection.
In 1978 Adeline Levine, professor of Sociology at the University at Buffalo visited the Love Canal days after it was declared a national disaster. After speaking with local residents and government officials, Levine was motivated to research the psychosocial impact of toxic waste dump site on the local community. Her published book, Love Canal: Science, Politics, and People (1982) examined the crisis at Love Canal by following the development of local community organizations and scrutinizing the government's response.
In 2007 Levine wrote an described how she became involved in researching the Love Canal environmental disaster.
"Motivated by curiosity I visited the Love Canal for the first time nine days after it was declared a health hazard... The situation was very chaotic at that time. On that first visit I saw people moving out of their well-kept homes, met a pregnant woman convinced she was carrying a monster; spoke to another woman afraid that her daughter would be unable to bear children; saw worried men and women lined up to get information from newly established government offices; talked to some of the government workers trying to bring some order out of the chaos; and met the young woman (Lois Gibbs) who was suddenly thrust into prominence as the leader of a brand new citizen's organization. After eight hours, I came home, determined to do research at Love Canal."1
This collection contains notes from meetings attended, reference materials, communications and other related materials regarding the environmental impact on the Love Canal disaster area. The bulk of the collection is related to the Love Canal Technological Review Committee, which performed the habitability and environmental studies. Adeline Levine's handwritten notes are on many of the meeting handouts.
Arranged in three series: I. Government Agencies, II. CECOS International, Inc., and III. Related Love Canal Documents. The collection is chronologically arranged unless otherwise noted.
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| 1.1 |
Project Summary: Stack Testing of the
Mobile Plasma Arc report, October
1986
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| 1.2 |
Alternatives for Destruction of Love
Canal Creek and Sewer Sediments report, June
1987
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| 1.3 |
Love Canal Feasibility Study workshop, August
1987; includes meeting
agenda, and notes.
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| 1.4 |
Love Canal public information meeting, August
1987; includes agenda,
copy of presentation and
Proposed Plan for Destruction/Disposal
of Love Canal Creek and Sewer Sediments report.
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| 1.5-1.6 |
Summary of Key Decisions in the Love
Canal Habitability Assessment Program, Volume 1 draft report, April
1988
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| 1.7 |
Preliminary Assessment Petition, November
1988
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| 1.8 |
United States Congressional materials,
1980-1989; includes
Serious Reduction of Hazardous
Waste,
Technologies and Management Strategies
for Hazardous Waste, and
Superfund Act (CERCLA)
reports.
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| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 1.9 |
The SEQR Handbook, March
1982; includes copy of
State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQR).
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| 1.10-1.11 |
Love Canal Landfill newsletter,
1983-1991; includes
issues # 1-16 and special edition #15.
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| 1.12 |
Mailings,
1983-1990,
undated
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| 1.13-1.17 |
Publications,
1983-1989; includes
accompanying letters from New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation.
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| 2.1 |
New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation materials,
1986-1988, undated;
includes EDA city plan and Status of Ongoing Remedial Projects at the Love
Canal 1988, Wasteline Vol. 2 No. 2 newsletter 1988.
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| 2.2 |
News conference and inspection tour of Love Canal,
1988; including press
release, notes,
Inactive Hazardous Waste Site
Remediation,
Love Canal Inactive Hazardous Waste
Site: A Remedial Chronology,
NYS Hazardous Waste Site Remedial
Plan reports.
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| 2.3 |
New York State Department of Health materials,
1985-1990,
undated
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| 2.4 |
Citizen Advisory Group,
1988
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| 2.5-2.7 |
New York State Legislature materials,
1986-1990,
undated
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| The Love Canal Technical Review Committee (LCTRC) was an inter-governmental agency task force. They produced the Habitability Study used to determine the safety of the site. The group contracted CH2M Hill Southeast and Life Systems, Inc. to conduct these studies. | ||
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Documents in this section include agendas, minutes, handouts from meetings, transcripts, handwritten notes, and other meeting related materials. |
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| 2.8 |
Meetings, February
1984
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| 2.9-2.10 |
Meetings, March and April
1984
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| 2.11-3.1 |
Meetings, May
1984
[5 folders] |
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[Note: Missing pages 171-299 of 2 May 1984 meeting transcript] |
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| 3.2-3.5 |
Meeting, June
1984
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| 3.6-3.10 |
Meeting, July
1984
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| 3.11-4.2 |
Meetings, August and September
1984
[5 folders] |
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| 4.3-4.7 |
Meeting, November
1984
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| 4.8-4.9 |
Meetings,
1985
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| 4.10 |
Meeting, March
1985
[bound volume] |
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| 4.11 |
Meeting,
1986
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| 5.1-5.3 |
Meetings,
1987
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| 5.4 |
Meeting, January
1988
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| 5.5 |
Meeting, February
1988
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| 5.6-5.7 |
Meeting, March
1988
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| 5.8 |
Meeting, May
1988
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| 5.9 |
Meeting, June
1988
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| 5.10 |
Meeting, July
1988
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| 5.11 |
Meeting, October
1988
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| 5.12 |
Meeting, January
1989
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| 6.1 |
Meeting, May
1989
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| 6.2-6.3 |
Meeting, September
1989
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| 6.4 |
Meeting, January
1990; includes note
from Pat Brown.
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| 6.5 |
Meeting, May
1990
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| 6.6 |
Meeting, January
1985
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| 6.7 |
Meetings, May
1985
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| 6.8-6.10 |
Meeting, March
1986
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| 6.11-7.1 |
Meetings, May
1986
[3 folders] |
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| 7.2 |
Meeting, March
1987
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| 7.3-7.7 |
Meeting, June
1988
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| 7.8-7.9 |
Peer review materials,
1984-1988,
undated
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| 7.10-7.12 |
ICAIR Peer Reviewer Selections:
Resumes and Representative Publications background information report,
1986
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| 8.1 |
Memoranda,
1984-1985
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| 8.2-8.3 |
Meeting, March
1985; includes Draft
Habitability Criteria report.
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| 8.4-8.5 |
Meetings, May
1989
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| The Love Canal Area Revitalization Agency (LCARA) was a governmental agency created to organize the re-habitation of the Love Canal Area after the area had been determined habitable and the containment system had been installed. See University Archives Collection, MS 74 (finding aid available online) for more information on this agency. | ||
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| 8.6 |
LCARA News newsletter,
1989-1991; includes
Vol.1, No.1 - No.7.
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| 8.7 |
Meetings,
1987-1990
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| 8.8 |
LCARA materials,
1988-1991; includes notes
of meetings and correspondence.
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| 8.9 |
Love Canal Area Master Plan: Draft Generic
Environmental Impact Statement (DGEIS),
1989
[bound volume] |
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| 8.10 |
Meetings,
1988
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| 9.1 |
Meeting, January
1989
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| 9.2-9.3 |
Meetings, February
1989; includes
statements and testimony from public.
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| 9.4 |
Meetings, May
1989
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| 9.5 |
Meetings, June and July
1989; includes letter
thanking Dr. Levine for her participation.
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II. CECOS International, Inc.,
1988-1990 |
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The company, CECOS International, applied for a permit for a new chemical waste facility in Niagara Falls, New York. |
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| 9.6 | Correspondence, 1988-1990 | |
| 9.7 | CECOS v. City of Niagara Falls, 1989; includes legal brief. | |
| 9.8 | Legal documents relating to hearing, 1988, undated | |
| 9.9-10.2 | Legal documents relating to hearing,
1988; includes
Intervener Concerned Citizens
Organizations Pre-filed Testimony of Psychological Impact Issues
report. [5 bound volumes] |
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| 10.3 | Testimony and statements from citizens regarding CECOS
permit, undated [bound volume] |
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| 10.4-10.5 | Market study into other CECOS sites,
1988 [bound volume] |
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| 10.6-11.4 | Transcripts of hearings regarding CECOS permit,
1988; includes volumes
31-34. [5 bound volumes] |
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| 11.5-11.6 | Articles and papers, 1984-1988, undated; includes Adeline Levine and Russell Stone's two papers: Reactions to Collective Stress: Correlates of Active Citizen Participation at Love Canal and The Question of Habitability of Love Canal: the Role of Scientific Expertise and Technical data in Establishing Criteria (making new science with immediate policy implications). | |
| 12.1-12.2 | Assorted environmental and Love Canal materials, 1983-1989, undated; includes reports from U.S. General Accounting Office and US Attorney's Office, conference materials on Labor and Environment Conference on Toxic Substances, and Silresim Area Health Study: Report of Findings. | |
| 12.3 | Ecumenical Task Force, 1986-1990; includes reports on activities, 22 April 1987 meeting notes, and letter from NYS Department of Health. | |
| 12.4 | Statements and testimony for Draft Generic Environmental Impact Statement, 1990, undated | |
| 12.5 | United States v. Hooker Chemical, legal brief, undated | |
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