By the 1940s, Hooker Electrochemical Company (later known as Hooker Chemical Company), founded by Elon Hooker, began searching for a place to dump the large quantity of chemical waste it was producing.
Deset let po incidentu je komisar ministrstva za zdravje države New York David Axelrod izjavil, da se bo Love Canal v zgodovino zapisal kot »državni simbol pomanjkanja čuta za skrb za prihodnje generacije«.