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 by the plan.

‘None of us affected by the contamination have been allowed to see the plan before they signed it today, let alone have a say,’ she said. ‘The decision appears to be woefully inadequate to protect the public and the environment.’

Community groups have alerted the Navy for years that the ‘refusal to undertake any cleanup of radionuclides is inappropriate,’ according to a 2018 Committee to Bridge the Gap analysis. The report suggests radioactive contamination on land could have migrated through stormwater runoff or sewer lines, and ‘it simply isn’t credible to assert no radioactive contamination in Parcel F.'”

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