[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Hunters Point Shipyard, San Francisco

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Hunters Point cleanup creates controversy

by Sarah Chase
Golden Gate Xpress (CA)
April 14, 2010

The long wait to clean up the Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard will continue.

In the past, the site was used by the U.S. Navy for nuclear weapons 
research and radioactive laboratory operations when the effects of such 
activities were unknown.

Most of the shipyard, closed in 1991, is still owned by the Navy. In 
order for the land to be transferred to city ownership, the area must 
undergo drastic cleanup operations to rid the soil and groundwater of 
various residue and chemicals.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the area has been 
deemed a Superfund site--an area in need of cleanup due to the storage 
of hazardous materials--which will provide a $50,000 Technical 
Assistance Grant to aid in the development of a cleanup process.

But how to go about cleaning the area has proven to be a difficult task. 
The 936-acre area, including parts underwater, is contaminated with 
different substances, such as lead, asbestos and radionuclides. In order 
to look at areas individually, it has been broken into different parcels 
ranging from A-G, to be researched and inspected by the EPA and Navy.


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For the entire article, see
http://xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/arts/014693.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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