[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, CLOSURE - Hunters Point (CA) landfill

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Navy tests pollution at Hunters Point site
The former shipyard at Hunters Point will be tested for contaminants 
before it is given to The City.

John Upton
San Francisco Examiner
February 28, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO - To determine whether the radioactive landfill at the 
former Hunters Point Shipyard will be replaced or paved over before it 
is given to San Francisco, the Navy has bored wells into the most 
contaminated parts to test groundwater pollution.

The 503-acre decommissioned Navy site in The City's southeast area is 
slated to be developed by homebuilding giant Lennar Corp. The former 
shipyard is divided into land parcels and Parcel E-2, located at the 
southeast corner of the site, is the most contaminated parcel, according 
to Saul Bloom of Arc Ecology, which was contracted by The City to 
research and share environmental information about the Superfund site.

Parcel E-2 was used in the 1950s and 1960s by the U.S. Navy as a dumping 
ground for radioactive waste, construction debris, paints, solvents, 
woodchips and other materials, according to Bloom. A "landfill cap" was 
placed over 13 acres of Parcel E-2 in 2001 to help extinguish an 
underground fire that burned for six months and released toxic gases, 
according to information published by Arc Ecology.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.examiner.com/a-1247328~Navy_tests_pollution_at_Hunters_Point_site.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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