In 1950s, the US built a neighbourhood upon 22,000 tons of buried toxic waste, then children began returning home with burns exposing the worst environmental scandal of the country

William T. Love, a 19th-century real estate and railroad entrepreneur had a visionary idea of digging a canal that would connect the upper and lower Niagara River bypassing the Falls to generate power for a new "Model City." But soon Nikola Tesla invented alternating current, enabling the economical transmission of energy over long distances, leaving the idea useless.

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