Hunters Point - Former Naval Shipyard
Hunters Point was a United States Navy shipyard in San Francisco, located on 638 acres of waterfront at Hunters Point in the southeast corner of the city.
The base closed in 1994. Since then the site has been part of a Superfund cleanup effort to remediate decades of lethal contamination.
See below for thousands of pages documenting contamination at Hunters Point.
Former Naval Shipyard Hunters Point
Hunters Point is identified as a DOD installation with known or suspected releases of PFOS/PFOA, according to a DOD Report to Congress on Aqueous Film-Forming Foam - Nov. 3, 2017.
No testing results were made public regarding the base, only that it is likely contaminated with the ”forever chemicals.”
Hunter's Point Annex - Source - DOD
Groundwater Contaminants:
Manganese and compounds 12468000.0 ppb
Acenaphthene 3000.0 ppb
Aldrin 60.0 ppb
Aluminum 102000.0 ppb
Antimony and compounds 7610.0 ppb
Arsenic (cancer) 15440.0 ppb
Barium and compounds 233500.0 ppb
Cadmium and compounds 3600.0 ppb
Carbon disulfide 10000.0 ppb
Chlordane 20.0 ppb
Copper and compounds 2100.0 ppb
DDT 20.0 ppb
Heptachlor 130.0 ppb
Iron 250820.0 ppb
Methoxychlor 10.0 ppb
Molybdenum 38010.0 ppb
Nickel and compounds 92200.0 ppb
N-Nitrosodiphenylamine 5000.0 ppb
Selenium 2630.0 ppb
Toluene 600.0 ppb
Trichloroethylene (TCE) 6000.0 ppb
Vanadium 7810.0 ppb
Xylene (mixed) 500.0 ppb
Zinc 2000.0 ppb
Soil Contaminants:
4-Methylphenol 0.18 ppb
Acenaphthene 0.05 ppb
Acetone 0.14 ppb
Anthracene 0.14 ppb
Benz(a)anthracene 0.71 ppb
Benzene 0.01 ppb
Benzo[k]fluoranthene 0.98 ppb
Carbon disulfide 0.01
DDD,4,4- 0.05 ppb
DDE 0.01 ppb
DDT 0.04 ppb
Dibenz[ah]anthracene 0.02 ppb
Endosulfan 0.01 ppb
Endrin 0.02 ppb
Fluorene 0.02 ppb
Heptachlor epoxide 0.01 ppb
Indeno[1,2,3-cd]pyrene 0.69 ppb
Isophorone 0.28 ppb
Methoxychlor 0.04 ppb
ppb Ethylbenzene 0.02 ppb
Silver and compounds 0.39 ppb
Tetrachloroethylene (PCE) 0.01 ppb
Trichloroethylene (TCE) 0.17 ppb
Xylene (mixed) 0.15 ppb
Groundwater Contaminants:
Manganese and compounds 12468000.0 ppb
Acenaphthene 3000.0 ppb
Aldrin 60.0 ppb
Aluminum 102000.0 ppb
Antimony and compounds 7610.0 ppb
Arsenic (cancer) 15440.0 ppb
Barium and compounds 233500.0 ppb
Cadmium and compounds 3600.0 ppb
Carbon disulfide 10000.0 ppb
Chlordane 20.0 ppb
Copper and compounds 2100.0 ppb
DDT 20.0 ppb
Heptachlor 130.0 ppb
Iron 250820.0 ppb
Methoxychlor 10.0 ppb
Molybdenum 38010.0 ppb
Nickel and compounds 92200.0 ppb
N-Nitrosodiphenylamine 5000.0 ppb
Selenium 2630.0 ppb
Toluene 600.0 ppb
Trichloroethylene (TCE) 6000.0 ppb
Vanadium 7810.0 ppb
Xylene (mixed) 500.0 ppb
Zinc 2000.0 ppb
Soil Contaminants:
4-Methylphenol 0.18 ppb
Acenaphthene 0.05 ppb
Acetone 0.14 ppb
Anthracene 0.14 ppb
Benz(a)anthracene 0.71 ppb
Benzene 0.01 ppb
Benzo[k]fluoranthene 0.98 ppb
Carbon disulfide 0.01
DDD,4,4- 0.05 ppb
DDE 0.01 ppb
DDT 0.04 ppb
Dibenz[ah]anthracene 0.02 ppb
Endosulfan 0.01 ppb
Endrin 0.02 ppb
Fluorene 0.02 ppb
Heptachlor epoxide 0.01 ppb
Indeno[1,2,3-cd]pyrene 0.69 ppb
Isophorone 0.28 ppb
Methoxychlor 0.04 ppb
ppb Ethylbenzene 0.02 ppb
Silver and compounds 0.39 ppb
Tetrachloroethylene (PCE) 0.01 ppb
Trichloroethylene (TCE) 0.17 ppb
Xylene (mixed) 0.15 ppb
San Francisco City Water System Serves: 800,000 Data available: 2012—2017
https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/system.php?pws=CA3810011
Source: Purchased surface water Contaminants Detected 2 EXCEED EWG HEALTH GUIDELINES
8 Total Contaminants
EWG's drinking water quality report shows results of tests conducted by the water utility and provided to the Environmental Working Group by the California State Water Resources Control Board, as well as information from the U.S. EPA Enforcement and Compliance History database (ECHO). For the latest quarter assessed by the U.S. EPA (January 2019 - March 2019), tap water provided by this water utility was in compliance with federal health-based drinking water standards.
Legal does not necessarily equal safe. Getting a passing grade from the federal government does not mean the water meets the latest health guidelines.
Legal limits for contaminants in tap water have not been updated in almost 20 years.
The best way to ensure clean tap water is to keep pollution out of source water in the first place.
https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/system.php?pws=CA3810011
Source: Purchased surface water Contaminants Detected 2 EXCEED EWG HEALTH GUIDELINES
8 Total Contaminants
EWG's drinking water quality report shows results of tests conducted by the water utility and provided to the Environmental Working Group by the California State Water Resources Control Board, as well as information from the U.S. EPA Enforcement and Compliance History database (ECHO). For the latest quarter assessed by the U.S. EPA (January 2019 - March 2019), tap water provided by this water utility was in compliance with federal health-based drinking water standards.
Legal does not necessarily equal safe. Getting a passing grade from the federal government does not mean the water meets the latest health guidelines.
Legal limits for contaminants in tap water have not been updated in almost 20 years.
The best way to ensure clean tap water is to keep pollution out of source water in the first place.
The California Water Board did not test San Francisco's water for PFOS/PFOA in 2019.
In the News
Contamination, de-contamination and the dilemma of distrust at the Hunters Point shipyard
San Francisco Bay View, November 3, 2019
https://sfbayview.com/2019/11/contamination-de-contamination-and-the-dilemma-of-distrust-at-the-hunters-point-shipyard/
Contamination, de-contamination and the dilemma of distrust at the Hunters Point shipyard
San Francisco Bay View, November 3, 2019
https://sfbayview.com/2019/11/contamination-de-contamination-and-the-dilemma-of-distrust-at-the-hunters-point-shipyard/
"Some of the conditions I noted were dangerous. Building 217 was used to store radioactive waste commodities (subject to NRC license contro]s) prior to being transported off the shipyard. On or about March 17, 2010 after the field crews bad left for the day and I was doing my "end-of-day" RAD integrity field check, I discovered that RCA posted Building 217 had been left unsecured. We had a recurring problem with trespassers at the shipyard and they or anyone else could have gained unimpeded access to the radiologically controlled interior 30 Declaration of Elbert Bowers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 portions of the building and come in contact with radioactive material stored inside and subject to controls dictated by Tetra Tech EC's NRC materials license. " https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1817/ML18178A097.pdf
DoD's Installation Restoration Program (IRP) Sites that have not Achieved Response Complete (RC) January 2018
https://www.denix.osd.mil/derp/home/documents/installation-restoration-program-report-to-congress-january-2018/
Key: DERA - Defense Environmental Restoration Account funds
BRAC - Base Realignment and Closure
Navy California TREASURE ISLAND NS HUNTERS PT ANNEX BRAC SITE 00001
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Navy California TREASURE ISLAND NS HUNTERS PT ANNEX BRAC SITE 00007
PT ANNEX BRAC SITE 00028
BRAC SITE 00036
BRAC SITE 00039
PT ANNEX BRAC SITE 00078
https://www.denix.osd.mil/derp/home/documents/installation-restoration-program-report-to-congress-january-2018/
Key: DERA - Defense Environmental Restoration Account funds
BRAC - Base Realignment and Closure
Navy California TREASURE ISLAND NS HUNTERS PT ANNEX BRAC SITE 00001
TREASURE ISLAND NS HUNTERS PT ANNEX 201907 23,770 3
Navy California TREASURE ISLAND NS HUNTERS PT ANNEX BRAC SITE 00007
PT ANNEX BRAC SITE 00028
BRAC SITE 00036
BRAC SITE 00039
PT ANNEX BRAC SITE 00078
In the News:
Hunters Point AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez.
Fake Cleanup or Fake News?
Relaxed cleanup standards established by the Navy could pose serious long-term health risks, including an increased chance of cancer for current and former residents.
In the past at least one of the contractors hired by the Navy to remove radioactivity, an environmental engineering firm called Tetra Tech, allegedly faked its cleanup work.
https://sf.curbed.com/2019/12/19/21030219/navy-radioactivity-allowances-clean-up-cleanup-hunters-point
Relaxed cleanup standards established by the Navy could pose serious long-term health risks, including an increased chance of cancer for current and former residents.
In the past at least one of the contractors hired by the Navy to remove radioactivity, an environmental engineering firm called Tetra Tech, allegedly faked its cleanup work.
https://sf.curbed.com/2019/12/19/21030219/navy-radioactivity-allowances-clean-up-cleanup-hunters-point
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