[CPEO-BIF] "Cleaning up toxic sites shouldn’t clear out the neighbors"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cleaning up toxic sites shouldn’t clear out the neighbors

The Conversation
July 10, 2017

San Francisco has embarked on a project to transform its industrial southeast waterfront into a bike-friendly destination called the Blue Greenway. When completed, the Blue Greenway will be a 13-mile network of parks, bike lanes and trails along the southeastern edge of the city. 

Among its many benefits, the project creates green space and waterfront access in the low-income Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood. The Blue Greenway is part of a larger transformation of Bayview Hunters Point. This older, neglected neighborhood is still full of vacant lots and a large, abandoned naval base, but it is becoming a landscape of hip townhomes and new coffee shops. Its transformation includes the complicated cleanup of many toxic waste sites – most notoriously, a military radiation lab on the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. 

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For the entire article/column, see
http://theconversation.com/cleaning-up-toxic-sites-shouldnt-clear-out-the-neighbors-74741

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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