After nearly 30 years as a federal Superfund site, a full cleanup of radioactive and contaminated soil at the former Hunters Point naval shipyard in San Francisco appears as far away as ever, with the U.S. Navy agreeing to retest all of a contractor’s soil samples from two parcels highlighted in a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency review.
The cleanup of the approximately 500-acre site, once used for warship repair and nuclear weapons research, has been plagued by environmental scandals. Over the years, former employees at Pasadena contractor Tetra Tech have claimed extensive soil data manipulation and falsification.