[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, CLIMATE: Hunters Point Naval Shipyard and sea-level rise

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

New report finds S.F.’s biggest development project ignores huge climate change risk: rising contamination

By Jason Fagone and Cynthia Dizikes
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
June 1, 2022

Rising seas caused by climate change could ultimately expose thousands of people to hazardous chemicals at San Francisco’s biggest redevelopment project — and the city is unprepared for the risks, according to a new grand jury report.

San Francisco plans to build housing units, commercial spaces and parks in low-lying areas of the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, which hugs the bay in southeastern San Francisco. The project is the city’s biggest redevelopment effort since the 1906 earthquake.

Yet the San Francisco civil grand jury report warns that groundwater could carry dangerous buried substances to the surface as the water table rises at the site, which was contaminated decades ago with heavy metals, volatile organic compounds and radioactive substances. The result could be catastrophic “for health, for environmental safety, and for the resilience of future development,” the report notes.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-grand-jury-warns-of-looming-threat-at-17213556.php

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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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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