[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, REUSE: Hunters Point Naval Shipyard and Treasure Island, San Francisco, CA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Three SF supervisors, environmental groups seek ouster of health official after Chronicle investigation

By Cynthia Dizikes and Jason Fagone
San Francisco Chronicle
September 3, 2020 

Three San Francisco supervisors and a group of environmental activists are calling for a city public health official to be reassigned or fired, saying she misled the public about a helicopter survey of radioactive waste at two former naval bases in the city that were contaminated during the Cold War and are now being cleaned and turned into housing.

The San Francisco Department of Public Health defended the official, Amy Brownell, saying she did nothing wrong in relying on the helicopter scan, which found no radioactive anomalies, to assure people the sites were safe.

Brownell, an environmental engineer with the health department, has for years monitored the cleanups of the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard and Treasure Island. The demands for her removal follow a Chronicle investigation, published last week, that showed the aerial survey had limited value - and that Brownell knew this from the beginning.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Three-SF-supervisors-environmental-groups-seek-15541719.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
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