[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Treasure Island's Toxic Problem" (San Francisco, CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Treasure Island's Toxic Problem
San Francisco's hottest property may be Treasure Island, where plans for 
glitzy development are threatened by the Navy's legacy of radioactive waste


By ANTHONY PIGNATARO
Cal Watchdog
October 12, 2010

SAN FRANCISCO - The jet fighters raced across the sky maybe 500 feet 
above me. They were F-18s painted blue and yellow - the U.S. Navy's Blue 
Angels aerobatics team. They raced across San Francisco Bay last 
Thursday, alone and in pairs, splitting and diving and rolling and 
occasionally forming into up into four-ship diamonds so tightly packed 
it looked like a person could step from plane to plane.

...

Turns out that old Treasure Island Naval Station is some of the hottest 
property in San Francisco. Maybe the hottest, in fact, though not in the 
way reuse officials, politicians and land developers want to admit.

That's because a disputed portion of Treasure Island - the Navy says 
just a few sites, others say possibly the entire island - is 
radioactive. What to do about the radiological contamination has become 
the great unmentionable in the quest to turn the old, rapidly decaying 
base into San Francisco's "premier date-night locale," as one aide to 
Mayor (and Lieutenant Governor candidate) Gavin Newsom recently put it.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.calwatchdog.com/2010/10/11/treasure-islands-toxic-problem/

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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