[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Soil issues at former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, CA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[There have been many recent news stories about Hunters Point contamination, and I haven’t been keeping up. I’ll try to identify a few more key articles, but you can easily find more simply by doing a web search. - LS]

Possible toxic dirt taints SF Shipyard neighborhood dream for some

By J.K. Dinner
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
April 29, 2018 

The developer called them visionaries. Theo Ellington was among them, the pioneering home buyers who took a chance on the new condominiums at the old Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, a weed-choked, 420-acre Superfund site that had been largely fenced off since the mid-1970s.

Ellington, who grew up nearby at Third Street and Palou Avenue in the Bayview neighborhood, had bid on other properties but always lost out to other buyers. Jason Freed was another. A consultant for environmental groups, he managed to buy a unit just as his landlord in the Haight was selling his apartment.

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But over the past few months, residents say, that sense of calm has been broken by the alarming news that the cleanup of contaminated soil on the site might have been botched. That opens the possibility that poisons remain from the time the shipyard was home to the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory from 1946 to 1969, when tests were conducted to determine the effects of radiation on living organisms and ships contaminated by atomic bomb explosions were dry docked at Hunters Point.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/article/Possible-toxic-dirt-taints-SF-Shipyard-12872275.php

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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>
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