2017 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 22:40:53 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Fake soil tests delay [Hunters Point, CA] Shipyard project"
 
Fake soil tests delay SF Shipyard project

By J.K. Dinner
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
February 7, 2017 

The transfer of some parcels at San Francisco Shipyard to the city for development will be delayed by at least a year after employees of a contractor cleaning up the property admitted faking soil tests, a Navy spokesman confirms.

Derek Robinson, the environmental coordinator for the U.S. Navy’s Base Realignment and Closure program at Hunters Point, said a group of six consultants is reviewing all the soil testing on the the former naval shipyard, which closed in 1994. It is being developed by FivePoint Communities into a sprawling mixed-use neighborhood with more than 12,000 housing units, hundreds of acres of parkland and millions of square feet of office space.

“We want to resolve these issues as soon as possible and transfer the property to the city as soon as possible,” said Robinson, who is an employee of the Navy.

Concern over the accuracy of the soil tests first emerged in October 2012, when the Navy discovered that some results were inconsistent with results from previous samples collected in the same areas. While the dirt in question was identified as having been collected from beneath a former lab used to conduct radiation tests on animals, an internal investigation by the contractor doing the cleanup, Tetra Tech, found that in at least 386 cases it had been pulled from areas already given a clean bill for radiological contamination.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Fake-soil-tests-delay-SF-Shipyard-project-10915908.php

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Lenny Siegel
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a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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