[CPEO-MEF] SHIPS: San Diego Bay pollution

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Diego Claims Shipbuilders & Navy Have Polluted Harbor for 95 Years

By SONYA ANGELICA DIEHN
Courthouse News Service
October 19, 2009


SAN DIEGO (CN) - Sixteen private companies and the U.S. Navy have been 
polluting San Diego Bay for nearly a century, the City of San Diego 
claims in Federal Court. The city clams the defendants allow as much as 
10 percent of the paint sandblasted from ships to pollute the bay with 
heavy metals such as copper, chromium and lead.

The city says the Navy, the San Diego Unified Port District, National 
Steel & Shipbuilding Co. and 15 other ship construction and repair 
companies have been contaminating the East Shore since from 1914.
Litigation in the 1990s revealed that some defendants, including BAE 
Systems San Diego Ship Repair, violated the Clean Water Act, the city 
says. A judge ruled in 1999 that BAE had polluted the bay by its 
"pattern of poor housekeeping."

San Diego says that the companies, some of which have been operating at 
the shipyard for 50 years, "intentionally or accidentally" discharged 
waste from ship painting and refinishing operations into San Diego Bay.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.courthousenews.com/2009/10/19/San_Diego_Claims_Shipbuilders_&_Navy_Have_Polluted_Harbor_for_95_Years.htm

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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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