Chemical plants made Niagara Falls great

By Ken Hamilton

Special to the Express

When people see these treatment tanks, they rue the day that Niagara Falls NY was an industrial giant.

But does anyone 'here' know what the city of Niagara Falls would be like IF there were never any such industries 'here' that necessitated the need for these tanks at all?

Doubtful.

That's because if it had never been any such electro-chemical and other heavy industry in the city at all, there would have been very few people who now live here who would now be the offspring of those people that through the years came here to work in such industries.

In other words, you might have been born somewhere else --- if born at all.

Niagara Falls became what it was because of heavy industries that supported the city's economy year-round, and allowed residents the resources that they needed to visit other places. But what kind of incomes would city citizens have had if they were only in the retail service sector?

Not enough resources to travel upon. We would more or less have simply been the village of Niagara Falls.

As far as I feel, "No tanks, no thanks!"

It's true, we were.

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