2007 CPEO Installation Reuse Forum Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 5 Jan 2007 02:35:50 -0000
Reply: cpeo-irf
Subject: [CPEO-IRF] Hunters Point (San Francisco) stadium
 
Hunters Point stadium 'doable'
S.F. SAYS TOXIC SITE COULD BE CLEANED QUICKLY TO HOUSE 49ERS

By Mike Swift
San Jose Mercury News (CA)
January 4, 2007	


When the U.S. government performed atomic tests in the Pacific during the 1940s and 1950s, many nearby ships returned to San Francisco to be sand-blasted of the radioactive residue from nuclear blasts.

Half a century later, that radioactive legacy is one question hanging over Mayor Gavin Newsom's latest proposal to build a stadium for the San Francisco 49ers at the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, an effort to dash hopes of some Santa Clara officials for a stadium at Great America.

The U.S. Navy and San Francisco officials argued Wednesday that they have the answers to that problem, and that radioactive cesium and radium and other toxic pollution at the former shipyard could be removed or sealed off in time for stadium construction to begin in late 2009.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/16380982.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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