Category: Hunters Point
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Exposed: How a San Francisco Navy Lab Became a Hub for Human Radiation Experiments (The Guardian)
“Rarely seen documents show a Cold War atomic research facility headquartered at Hunters Point conducted studies that exposed at least 1,073 people to potentially harmful radiation. The legacy of that...
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EPA and Navy announce Hunters Point shoreline cleanup plan (NBC Bay Area)
“Federal environmental officials unveiled Thursday what they hailed as a landmark deal with the Navy to clean up the shoreline around the old site of its Hunters Point Naval Shipyard—a...
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Navy’s Hunters Point Shipyard Cleanup in San Francisco Moves Underwater (KQED)
“Bayview residents, including Arieann Harrison, have advocated for the complete cleanup of the site for decades. Harrison, founder and CEO of the Marie Harrison Community Foundation, said community members felt blindsided...
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“S.F. shipyard redevelopment delayed further after Navy agrees to expand toxic cleanup” (San Francisco Chronicle)
“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...
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‘Ticking time bomb’: Suit claims ‘egregious’ failures in SF shipyard cleanup (SF Examiner)
“An environmental advocacy group is suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Navy for ‘egregious violations’ during its cleanup of radioactive toxins at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. San Francisco-based...
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Greenaction Files Lawsuit Against US Navy and EPA on Hunters Point Cleanup
“Representatives from Greenaction for Health Environmental Justice have told the Chronicle that the group plans to file a lawsuit in federal court on Friday naming the U.S. Navy, which is...
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Cleanup of San Francisco Superfund Site Has Been Badly Mishandled, Lawsuit Alleges (KQED)
“An environmental justice nonprofit filed a lawsuit on Friday alleging “egregious” mishandling of the cleanup of radioactive contamination at the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco, one of...
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Critique by CBG of the Navy’s Draft Fifth Five-Year Review of Hunters Point
Click here to read our critique. Click here for the appendix to our critique. Every five years, the United States Navy is required by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and...
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US Navy Acknowledges Rising Toxic Groundwater Threat at SF Superfund Site (KQED)
A recent report from the US Navy confirms what we argued in our 2019 report on the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard: leaving contamination on-site beneath a thin ‘cover,’ as the...
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Radioactive objects turn up at S.F. site slated to become huge waterfront neighborhood — again (SF Chronicle)
“For the second time in five years, a massive retesting effort has turned up radioactive objects at the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, in areas that were already swept of...
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More radioactive objects found in SF’s Hunters Point shipyard testing (NBC Bay Area)
“The ongoing testing on the old Hunters Point Naval shipyard has turned up a piece of radioactive glass and another radium deck marker.”
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Radioactive Objects Found at San Francisco’s Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Raise New Concerns (KQED)
“The discovery, announced this week, is the latest in a steady drip of troubling findings at one of the city’s most ambitious redevelopment projects.”
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US navy accused of cover-up over radioactive shipyard waste (The Guardian)
“The US navy is covering up dangerous levels of radioactive waste on a 40-acre former shipyard parcel in San Francisco’s waterside Hunters Point neighborhood, public health advocates charge. The land...
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Fresh concerns raised about the cleanup of Hunters Point Shipyard (SF Examiner)
“On Thursday, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a Bay Area-based nonprofit, filed a complaint to the Navy’s Inspector General demanding an investigation of the Navy’s analysis of radioactive waste found...
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Navy Rejects Data Showing Hunters Point Strontium-90 Hot Spots as ‘Skewed’ (NBC Bay Area)
“A Navy official recently told the community that it considers recent retesting data reflecting elevated levels of the radioactive isotope Strontium-90 on the development site of the old Hunters Point...