From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Wed, 10 Feb 2021 10:02:01 -0800 (PST) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "[San Francisco, CA] moved people onto Treasure Island despite serious toxic dangers" |
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. … For the entire article, see https://48hills.org/2021/02/sf-moved-people-onto-treasure-island-despite-serious-toxic-dangers/ -- 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 _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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