a neighborhood in Niagara Falls started noticing strange smells in the 1970s the Water started to taste odd and they started to become sick but what they didn't know was that their homes were actually built on top of a toxic waste dump you see decades prior before the neighborhood existed over 20,000 tons of hazardous chemicals had been buried there by a chemical company and when the area was developed for housing these chemicals began to seep into basement backyards and the local water supply the disaster led to massive evacuations and many families suffered long-term health effects