[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "[San Francisco, CA] moved people onto Treasure Island despite serious toxic dangers"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

SF moved people onto Treasure Island despite serious toxic dangers
Navy and its contractors gave inaccurate info on chemicals and radiation as development of housing moved forward, data at hearing shows.


By TIM REDMOND
48 Hills (San Francisco, CA)
FEBRUARY 8, 2021

For more than ten years, the US Navy provided inaccurate, incomplete or false data on the risks of chemical and radiological contamination at Treasure Island – while the city was moving more than 1,000 mostly low-income people into housing on the island.

That’s what a state official testified today in what Sup. Aaron Peskin called profound information. “You are the first person in a decade and a half to tell the truth,” Peskin said to Anthony Chu, the director of radiation safety at the state Department of Public Health.

Chu testified that during the period when the city was moving rapidly to develop the island, data on the health risks to the residents was completely unreliable.

Although he said things have improved, his testimony suggested that the city allowed people to live in a place where highly toxic materials were prevalent and had not been cleaned up.

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For the entire article, see
https://48hills.org/2021/02/sf-moved-people-onto-treasure-island-despite-serious-toxic-dangers/



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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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