[CPEO-MEF] AIR: Former Hunters Point Shipyard (CA) "minimizing dust"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA report: Shipyard project minimizing dust

John Coté
San Francisco Chronicle
January 5, 2010


For years, critics of the plan to redevelop the Hunters Point Naval 
Shipyard have said the project is kicking up toxic dust and causing 
residents to have nosebleeds, headaches and other health problems. But a 
draft of a federal report obtained by The Chronicle found the project 
has effective safeguards in place to minimize asbestos exposure.

The report by the Environmental Protection Agency is the latest in a 
string that have found the project to be safe, despite lawsuits, a 
record fine and more than three years of heated public hearings as 
activists seek to halt the work.

The draft report found that monitoring procedures are effectively 
minimizing "dust generation and limiting asbestos exposure." The EPA 
also saw "no reason to suspend or stop the construction project," which 
calls for 10,500 homes to be built over two decades in an ambitious 
effort to transform the city's southeastern waterfront.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2010/01/05/MNS91BDFIJ.DTL

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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