What if you found 22,000 tons of toxic waste in your own backyard?
Season 36
Episode 4
About the Episode
What would you do if you discovered that your home was built on top of a former chemical waste dump? This hypothetical became reality for the families of Love Canal, New York in the late 1970s.
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