[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Tour of Hunters Point Shipyard site, San Francisco, CA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hunters Point Shipyard tour a peek at $1 billion cleanup

by Michael Cabanatuan
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
June 28, 2014

San Francisco has big plans for Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, closed  
in 1974 and being cleansed of contamination by the Navy since 1991,  
but the city's largest piece of developable land remains a mystery to  
most.

About 45 curious folks got a close-up look at the deactivated  
shipyard Saturday on a bus tour offered by the Navy's environmental  
cleanup program. While the focus of the tour was the $1.1 billion  
cleanup effort, the group also got a glimpse behind the locked gates  
and chain-link fences.

During the nearly two-hour tour, they saw already cleansed hillsides,  
big pits where soil is being tested and fields where it's inspected.  
They rolled past massive dry docks once used to repair vessels as  
large as aircraft carriers and a 10-story barracks that was never  
inhabited.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Neighbors-get-look-at-Hunters- 
Point-shipyard-5586983.php

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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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