2018 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 17:00:22 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: "Navy Finds More Evidence of ‘Potential Data Manipulation’ in Hunters Point Shipyard [CA] Cleanup"
 
Navy Finds More Evidence of ‘Potential Data Manipulation’ in Hunters Point Shipyard Cleanup
A Hunters Point community group filed an additional petition with federal regulators to revoke the license of Tetra Tech – the company accused of botching the cleanup of the shipyard.

By Liz Wagner
NBC Bay Area (CA)
January 18, 2018

Federal officials identified more evidence of a botched radiation cleanup at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard – the superfund site in San Francisco slated for new development. The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit already exposed that the company in charge cheated on the cleanup. Investigative reporter Liz Wagner has now learned the federal government found additional instances of possible cheating. This story aired on Jan. 18, 2018. (Published Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018)
Federal officials uncovered more evidence of a botched cleanup at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco, a new Navy report shows.

The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit already exposed that Tetra Tech, the company in charge, cheated on the cleanup of the superfund site that’s slated for redevelopment. But in a new draft report, the Navy admits “evidence of potential data manipulation and falsification was discovered” during an investigation into Tetra Tech’s past cleanup activities.

Last year, Navy consultants launched a comprehensive review of the radiological data Tetra Tech collected at the shipyard, after former workers spoke exclusively to NBC Bay Area alleging widespread fraud by the company. The data are measurements of the amount of contamination in the soil. The Navy’s report, dated September 2017, discusses activities on 80 acres of the shipyard’s more than 900 acres of land.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Navy-Finds-More-Evidence-of-Potential-Data-Manipulation-in-Hunters-Point-Shipyard-Cleanup--470033613.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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