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Residents, physicians press San Francisco Health Commission to act on Hunters Point contamination; DPH vows coordinated outreach
Summary
Residents and physicians urged the Health Commission to use Article 31 funds and stronger enforcement to address dust, heavy-metal and radiological contamination along the western fence line of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. DPH said it will join regulators and return with a January update and expanded community engagement.
At the Sept. 5 meeting of the San Francisco Health Commission, several speakers called for immediate action to protect residents near the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, citing dust and toxic exposures.
Dr. Ahimsa Portasync Chai, a former San Francisco Department of Public Health physician specialist, told commissioners that children’s playgrounds and informal encampments sit within 500 feet of excavation activity along the shipyard’s western fence line and described a lack of basic dust barriers. “People who live on city streets like Griffith, Crisp Avenue, Revere and…
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