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What's Wrong at Hunters Point Shipyard? Community First Coalition for Hunters Point What You Can Do Pressure the legislature
to place environmental justice issues on the forefront of
their agendas by calling your California senators and
representatives
Contribute to Petition A mass community petition is underway demanding environmental justice from the US Navy. Please e-mail your name address and Phone number to alex@saej.org
For more information, contact:
ALLIANCE FOR A CLEAN WATERFRONT ARC Ecology Bayview Hunters Point Community Advocates Communities For A Better Environment/ SAFER! GREENACTION India Basin Neighborhood Association Literacy for Environmental Justice San Francisco Tomorrow YOUNG COMMUNITY DEVELOPERS |
San Francisco's Toxic Dump, Courtesy of the US Navy Hunters point shipyard is San Francisco's only Federal Superfund Site and its most contaminated property. The surrounding Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood is home to more than 2/3 of San Francisco's pollution with freeways. Power plants, and a sewage treatment plant. The shipyard's owner, the US Navy, has dragged its feet on meeting its responsibility to clean it up. · Since beginning its clean-up program, the Navy has spent more that $162 million on the site. Only about $50 million has been spent on actual clean-up activities. The rest has been spent on often flawed studies, poor project management and bureaucratic waste. · Only Parcel A is clean enough to transfer to the city. It was originally residential and the shipyard's cleanest area. · Clean-up only recently resumed at Parcel B. The Navy illegally walked off the job 19 months ago. Only a lawsuit by ARC Ecology, the Bayview Advocates and community resident Jill Fox brought them back to work. · Other toxins at Hunters Point include carcinogenic soil gases, solvents, oil products, and radioactive materials. Many parts are unsafe for human use. · In February 2000, the Navy estimated its "cost to complete" to be $266 million. Three years ago its Hunters Point Environmental Coordinator testified to the Board of Supervisors that $300 million would be needed to complete the job. · Today the Navy is proposing a $105 million "clean-up" that will basically leave Hunters Point Shipyard a toxic dump site, with asphalt and buildings above. · Last year the Army agreed to give Presidio $100 million towards clean-up. The base has only a fraction of the toxins of Hunters Point Shipyard. · The neighborhood surrounding the Presidio is affluent and largely white. Bayview residents are more that 90% people of color and largely African American. Could this be the reason behind the Navy's 25+ years of toxic games?
The Promise of Prosperity, the Threat of Displacement A revitalized Hunters Point Shipyard can be a boon to the Bayview Hunters Point community. It can be its undoing. As a public asset and San Francisco's last major tract of developable land, the Shipyard must make benefit to the surrounding community its primary objective. To do so, the development must: · Allocate 50% of all permanent and temporary jobs (8,000 jobs over 20 years) to Hunters Point residents and financially support the training and education programs that will prepare both long time residents and youth for those jobs. · Provide for programs and mechanisms to allow Bayview Hunters Point residents and organizations to participate in the development's ownership. · Increase affordable housing (moderate, low and very low income) amounts to meet San Francisco's Fair Share need (65%) and set qualifying criteria to Bayview Hunters Point income levels. · Protect the creative force of Shipyard artists. · Safeguard the Bayview Hunters Point environment through a commitment to reducing automobile use, on-site treatment and recycling of all wastewater, clean industry, and resource management.
Bayview Hunters Point residents and community-based organizations have joined with San Francisco's environmental community as the Community First Coalition for Hunters Point Shipyard. We have come together to demand the full and immediate cleanup of San Francisco's most contaminated land as well as ensure its conversion to a neighborhood serving, community building, and wealth enhancing development that will serve Bayview Hunters Point residents. |