[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Report: Navy altered Hunters Point [CA] cleanup to cover, not remove, toxic soil"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Report: Navy altered Hunters Point cleanup to cover, not remove, toxic soil

By Jason Fagone and Cynthia Dizikes 
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
August 14, 2019 

When the Navy began cleaning up its toxic shipyard in San Francisco in the 1990s, officials made a promise: The site would be scrubbed to the highest standards, essentially returned to its state before Cold War nuclear waste and industrial shops tainted the land.

But more recently, the Navy has ditched that plan for a cheaper approach that would leave much more contamination in the ground, according to a report released Tuesday by the Committee to Bridge the Gap, a nonprofit watchdog group on nuclear issues that often criticizes government and industry for their handling of hazardous waste.

The Navy lowered the standards even though city voters and elected officials demanded in 2000 and 2001 that the site be fully cleaned, the report points out. At the time, supervisors argued that looser rules could expose people to cancer-causing substances once the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard was turned into a massive housing development.

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For the entire article, se
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Report-Navy-altered-Hunters-Point-cleanup-to-14302320.php

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





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