[CPEO-MEF] San Francisco official helped Hunters Point [CA] shipyard developer assure homebuyers

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Selling shipyard safety
A key San Francisco public health official helped Hunters Point shipyard developer Lennar assure homebuyers that questions about the toxic site's safety were insignificant

By Jason Fagone and Cynthia Dizzies
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
December 13, 2018

Michael Spencer was about to sign the papers on a million-dollar home at San Francisco’s mothballed naval base when he began having second thoughts.

Amid charges of fraud and mismanagement in the cleanup of San Francisco’s toxic shipyard, The Chronicle is digging into public records and interviewing people connected to the site, trying to determine what happened and why. Read more of our Dangerous Ground reporting here.

The condominium sat on the first developed piece of the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard - a hilltop area known as Parcel A. The rest of the shipyard, adjacent to the home parcel, is a Superfund waste site tainted with radioactive substances. And something had gone wrong with the cleanup of that land, Spencer had learned from news reports. The Navy suspected fraud by a key contractor, Tetra Tech, raising the possibility that supposedly safe areas might contain hazards - and that thousands of homes might never get built.

A 50-year-old Air Force veteran, Spencer wanted assurance from the seller, Lennar Homes, that the home site was safe and that construction on the other shipyard parcels would still happen. He didn’t want to live on a little island of development surrounded by a wasteland.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.sfchronicle.com/green/article/Chronicle-Investigation-SF-health-official-13462076.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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