[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE: Parcel E2 Landfill Hunter’s Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, CA

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Summary of the independent technical review of Parcel E2 Landfill  
Hunter’s Point  Shipyard performed by Arc Ecology’s three technical  
experts.

Arc Ecology
August 9, 2012

"Dear Bayview Hunters Point community member and fellow San Francisco  
residents, we wanted to provide you with a summary of our technical  
experts review of the Parcel E2 landfill. The US Navy has proposed a  
capping and containment approach as the long-term remedy for the  
Parcel E2 landfill in Hunter’s Point Shipyard in their Draft Record  
of Decision. A cap is an engineered top placed on a landfill to  
prevent human and environmental exposure. In this case, the Navy is  
proposing to construct the cap of a geosynthetic liner and two feet  
of clean soil. As part of this remedy, the Navy will also remove and  
dispose contaminated soil in certain areas, separate and dispose of  
materials and soil with radiological contamination, install below- 
ground barriers to limit groundwater flow from the landfill, install  
a rock wall along the shoreline, and provide long-term maintenance  
and monitoring of the landfill.

"Arc Ecology, as the community technical advisor to the India Basin  
Neighborhood Association under their US EPA Technical Assistance  
Grant (TAG), hired three technical experts, Mark Wheeler (Landfill  
Expert) Steve Bump, (Radiation Specialist), and Greg Brorby,  
Toxicologist (Risk Assessment)) to conduct an independent technical  
review of Parcel E2. Parcel E2 is considered by many to be the most  
contaminated and controversial parcel in the Navy’s Hunter Point  
Shipyard Cleanup Program."

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For the entire summary, go to
http://arcecology.org/development/documents_hosted/Summary%20of% 
20Findings%20of%20Parcel%20E2%20Draft%20Record%20of%20Decision% 
20Independent%20Review%20Panel.pdf
or
http://www.arcecology.org/

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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