[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Treasure Island (CA) health issues

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Fair Warning: Developers cannot guarantee Treasure Island will be safe
Struck in the eyes
Part one of a six-part series

by Carol Harvey, Treasure Island Report
San Francisco Bay View (CA)
October 2, 2021



Toxic blasts struck two people in the face through an opening in a Treasure Island cleanup zone fence where workers were detonating World War II weapons and scanning for radioactive objects and soils. The two incidents happened this spring on former Naval Station Treasure Island, a San Francisco neighborhood isolated from the mainland in the middle of San Francisco Bay. 

On March 24, 2021, a resident crossing a street within feet of an untethered tarp blowing open from a chain link fence surrounding a cleanup zone was hit in the eyes and mouth by a sudden powerful blast of an unknown substance that left red striations in their eyes and burning and swelling of their lips. 

Their vision was affected for two months afterward. They worry about permanent damage to their sight.

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For the entire article, see
https://sfbayview.com/2021/10/fair-warning-developers-cannot-guarantee-treasure-island-will-be-safe/

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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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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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