# HOOKER CHEM-LOVE CNL
> **Judicial** · FY1978 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `1779`
- **Case Number:** 02-1978-0012
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $108.30M
- **Compliance action $:** $20.00M
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** Y
## Defendants
- BOARD OF EDUC, CITY OF NIAGARA (complaint)
- NIAGARA FALLS, CITY OF (complaint)
- NIAGARA, COUNTY OF (complaint)
- OCCIDENTAL CHEMICAL CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- OCCIDENTAL CHEMICAL HOLDING CO (complaint)
- OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM CORP (complaint)
- OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM INVEST CORP (complaint)
- OXY CHEMICAL CORP (complaint)
## Summary

HOOKER (LOVE CANAL)  THIS IS 1 OF 4 LAWSUITS FILED           AGAINST HOOKER IN THE NIAGARA FALLS AREA ON DEC 20, 1979.    HOOKER DISPOSED OF APPROX 20000 TONS OF HAZARDOUS WSTES      AT SITE FROM EARLY 1940S - 1953.  IN 1953 HOOKER SOLD        PROPERTY TO THE NIAGARA FALLS BRD OF EDUC FOR $1 IN ORDER    TO PROVIDE A SITE FOR AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.  CHEM FROM THE   LANDFILL HAVE BEEN DETECTED IN THE AIR, GRNDWTR, & SOIL      NEAR HOMES NEAR SITE (OVER 10 PARTS/MIL OF DIOXIN WAS        DETECTED IN THE SEDIMENTS IN SUMPS OF HOMES ADJACENT TO      CANAL).  THE STATE OF NY DECLARED AN EMERGENCY & RELOCATED   2 BLKS (OR RINGS) OF HOMES IN AUG 1978.  A TILE DRAIN        COLLECT'N SYSTEM & A CARBON TREATM'T SYS WERE INSTALLED      BY THE STATE W/ FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FROM EPA IN 1979 TO     STOP THE MIGRATION OF CHEM FROM LANDFILL.  IN 1980, THE      PRESIDENT DECLARED LOVE CANAL AREA A DISASTER AREA &         AUTHORIZED TEMP RELOCATION.  UNDER A STATUTE PASSED BY       CONGRESS, THE RESIDENTS IN AREA OF RELOCATION WERE           OFFERED FAIR MKT VALUE FOR THEIR HOMES.  THIS CASE IS        NATIONALLY MANAGED BY EPA HEADQRTRS.  EPA'S LOVE CANAL       MONITORING STUDY HAS FURTHER DOCUMENTED MIGRATION OF CHEM    FROM THE CANAL.  HHS HAS DETERMINED THAT THE                 LEVEL OF CHEM IN SOIL INSIDE 1ST 2 RINGS & IN SEDIMENTS      IN STORM SEWERS & STREAM SEDIMENTS PRESENT A HEALTH          HAZARD & MUST BE REMEDIED.  EPA IS IMPLEMENTING A CERCLA     CONTAINMENT PLAN WHICH PROVIDES FOR 

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