[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, REUSE: "San Francisco [CA] accepted Hunters Point shipyard land that may still be radioactive"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

San Francisco accepted Hunters Point shipyard land that may still be radioactive
EPA, state health regulators approved transfer in 2015 despite awareness of fraud allegations

By Chris Roberts
Curbed San Francisco (CA)
March 13, 2018

San Francisco officials accepted land for development at the former Hunters Point naval shipyard that may still be contaminated with radioactive pollution, documents and interviews show.

The transfer occurred despite three layers of review from federal, state, and local environmental and public-health regulators.

All of those agencies were aware at that time of a widening falsification scandal that, one year later, halted all land transfers at the shipyard, an EPA Superfund site that’s the location of the biggest redevelopment project in San Francisco since the 1906 earthquake.

Officials insist that neither the transfer nor the work done at the land—including repairs to the durable cover supposed to keep existing contamination in place—pose any risk to worker or public health.

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For the entire article, see
https://sf.curbed.com/2018/3/13/17081188/san-francisco-hunters-point-shipyard-radioactive-toxic-navy

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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