The "wet season" of 1977 caused this- more specifically, the blizzards.
2.) What are some of the health hazards associated with the chemicals dumped there?
Some chemicals caused cancer, liver disease, problems with the nervous system, and birth defects.
3.) Besides humans how are other parts of the ecosystem affected by this?
Like any chemical disaster, the humans are never the only ones suffering. The animals are suffering as well. The chemicals definitely leak into rivers and other bodies of water, poisoning the fish that live there and the other forms of wildlife that drink from there. The chemicals are also getting in the soil, and are being absorbed by the roots of plants and trees, thus killing them. Animals that reproduce are baring offspring with birth defects, much like the humans that live there.
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