[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, REUSE: "Former Contractors Claim Hunters Point [San Francisco, CA] Cleanup is Botched"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Former Contractors Claim Hunters Point Cleanup is Botched
High-level technicians claim they documented numerous violations that  
put public health and safety at risk

By Vicky Nguyen, Liz Wagner and Felipe Escamilla|
NBC Bay Area (CA)
May 21, 2014

Taxpayers have spent nearly a quarter of a billion dollars on the  
toxic cleanup of Hunters Point, a prime piece of land along the  
southeastern shore of San Francisco. The former naval shipyard, which  
was once used as a research and testing lab for nuclear weapons, is  
now undergoing a renaissance. The city plans to turn the 800-acre  
site into a development mecca complete with new parks, retail stores  
and homes.

It is a massive project that's decades in the making, but two high- 
level former technicians with intimate knowledge of the remediation  
effort say the cleanup is being botched and that the health and  
safety of the public is at risk because of it. Both say they wouldn’t  
live in or even visit the development planned for the site. In  
February, the Investigative Unit exposed that current workers also  
question the radiological cleanup of Hunters Point.

"It's playing Russian Roulette with the health and wellbeing of the  
general public, the people that handle it, and the environment," said  
Bert Bowers, a former radiation safety officer hired by Tetra Tech,  
the Navy contractor overseeing the cleanup of Hunters Point. He was  
tasked with maintaining compliance with federal mandates relevant to  
radiation protection and the management of radioactive materials.

...

For the entire story, see
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Former-Contractors-Claim- 
Hunters-Point-Cleanup-is-Botched-259871511.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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