[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE, LITIGATION: "Tetra Tech Agrees to $97M Pact to Settle San Francisco [CA] Navy Base Cleanup Suit"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tetra Tech Agrees to $97M Pact to Settle San Francisco Navy Base Cleanup Suit

By James Leggate
Engineering News Record
January 22, 2025

Consulting firm Tetra Tech EC Inc. agreed to pay $97 million as part of a deal to settle civil claimsbrought by federal authorities who accused the firm of wrongdoing in its environmental cleanup work for the U.S. Navy of the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco.

The unit of Pasadena, Calif.-based Tetra Tech Inc. provided radiological remediation services between 2003 and 2014 at the site, which, from 1948 to 1969 hosted the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory that was used for decontaminating ships exposed to atomic weapons testing and researching the effects of radiation, according to the Navy. 

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency classifies Hunters Point as a Superfund site, and the Navy-led cleanup is continuing at parts of the 443-acre shuttered site. A portion of it was transferred to the City of San Francisco for redevelopment in 2004, with efforts to build residential units in process since about 2011.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.enr.com/articles/60206-tetra-tech-agrees-to-97m-pact-to-settle-san-francisco-navy-base-cleanup-suit


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Lenny Siegel
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