OPINION: The EPA now says there will be no top-to-bottom review of what has gone wrong with the Hunters Point cleanup; it will not require cleanup to its most protective standards; and it will not act consistent with Prop P.
A new development in the ongoing botched cleanup of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard does not bode well for the health and safety of current and future residents of Hunters Point.
Walton went further: “We do have a say in determining whether or not any land is transferred to the City and County of San Francisco. Without a 100% cleanup, that land transfer does not take place.” Some background: On July 16, 1945, the USS Indianapolis departed the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard carrying components of a bomb code-named Little Boy. On Aug. 6, the Enola Gay left Tinian Island and dropped the assembled atomic bomb on Hiroshima. A year later, the radioactive hazard from the nuclear arms race that explosion started came back to Hunters Point.
The central crisis is the Navy’s effort, abetted by EPA, to evade its original commitments to clean up Hunters Point to the most protective EPA standards. Instead, the cleanup standards being used by the Navy are markedly less stringent than EPA’s most protective standards, permitting concentrations of radioactivity many times higher to be left without cleanup.
A year later, some answers by the EPA have just been provided, and they basically say: Pound sand. Indeed, the EPA now says there will be no top-to-bottom review of what has gone wrong with the Hunters Point cleanup; it will not require cleanup to its most protective standards; and it will not act consistent with Prop P.
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