[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, REUSE: "S.F. shipyard redevelopment delayed further after Navy agrees to expand toxic cleanup"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

S.F. shipyard redevelopment delayed further after Navy agrees to expand toxic cleanup

By Laura Waxmann, 
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
August 1, 2024

The U.S. Navy will expand an ongoing toxic cleanup of the 500-acre San Francisco’s Hunters Point Shipyard on two land parcels where soil sampling unearthed radioactive objects last year, a Navy spokesperson confirmed on Thursday. 

The new plan is expected to delay the shipyard’s cleanup by as many as 18 months. 

The objects — a 1.5-inch deck marker covered in radium tainted paint that was used to light passageways on ships during the Cold War, and a radioactive piece of glass — were discovered on two swaths of land where the Navy has been re-examining work conducted by its former remediation contractor, Tetra Tech EC, after allegations of fraud in connection with the cleanup surfaced in 2018.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s-f-shipyard-toxic-cleanup-navy-19613300.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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