[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, LITIGATION: "US plans to sue Hunters Point [CA] shipyard contractor accused of fraud"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

US plans to sue Hunters Point shipyard contractor accused of fraud

by Jason Fagone and Cynthia Dizzies 
San Francisco Chronicle
October 26, 2018

The Department of Justice intends to sue a Navy contractor accused of widespread fraud in the cleanup of San Francisco’s toxic shipyard, bolstering whistle-blower allegations of misconduct and deepening federal scrutiny of the city’s most ambitious redevelopment project since the 1906 earthquake, according to court filings made public this week.

The contractor, Tetra Tech EC, is at the center of the scandal, which involves the cleanup of radioactivity that has tainted the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard since the Cold War.

Desperate for housing and crunched for space, the city has long dreamed of building homes across the 500-acre shipyard, and the Navy hired Tetra Tech to pinpoint contamination that should be removed before people can safely live and work there. Because radioactive substances can be dangerous in extremely small amounts and the radiation they emit is invisible, the only way to accurately gauge the risk is to take careful measurements.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/U-S-plans-to-sue-Hunters-Point-shipyard-13338008.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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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