From: | Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Thu, 26 Sep 2024 23:29:02 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE, SEDIMENT: "Navy’s Hunters Point Shipyard Cleanup in San Francisco [CA] Moves Underwater" |
Navy’s Hunters Point Shipyard Cleanup in San Francisco Moves Underwater By Ezra David Romero KQED Public Media (San Francisco, CA) September 26, 2024 The long-running cleanup of one of the nation’s most contaminated sites crossed a major hurdle on Thursday as officials announced the final phase of plans to remove radioactive and industrial waste from San Francisco’s former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. This phase will take place underwater as the U.S. Navy and the Environmental Protection Agency address offshore pollution in the last of six areas that need environmental restoration. The new plan allows the Navy, which is responsible for cleaning up the site, to address contaminated underwater sediment from a 443-acre area of the San Francisco Bay around the shipyard, otherwise known as Parcel F. This is the underwater area that wraps around the base; other parts of the base are currently undergoing remediation. … For the entire article, see https://www.kqed.org/science/1994526/navys-hunters-point-shipyard-cleanup-in-san-francisco-moves-underwater For the EPA press release, see https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-and-navy-announce-milestone-cleanup-hunters-point-superfund-site-san-francisco — 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 Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org) _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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