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Radioactive Hazards

The United States Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory (NRDL) often experimented with and disposed of nuclear material with little apparent concern that it was operating in the middle of a major metropolitan area.

Sewage Hazards

Eight out of 10 San Francisco toilet flushes flow to a treatment plant in Bayview-Hunters Point, creating a stench that infuriates the neighborhood and now impacts a city fix of the Bay Area's main water supply.

PM2.5 Hazards

Health effects attributable to long-term exposure to PM2.5 include ischemic heart disease, lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), lower-respiratory infections (such as pneumonia), stroke, type 2 diabetes, and adverse birth outcomes.

Contaminated Soil

It has become an all too familiar sight for the 131 families living in Midway Village — the largest public housing complex in San Mateo County. Workers from the state's Department of Toxic Substances Control are once again dredging up seemingly endless tons of soil.

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NRDL Facility
Radioactive Sign

The United States Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory (NRDL) was an early military lab created to study the effects of radiation and nuclear weapons. The facility was based at the Hunter’s Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco, California. Activities of the facility led to:

Sewage Plant
Waste Water

The impoverished, isolated and largely African American neighborhoods didn’t always have the dubious distinction of being San Francisco’s outhouse. Until a revamping of the city’s sewer system in the 1970s, only 20 percent of the city’s sewage went to the area’s Southeast Water Pollution Control Plant. Since the revamp, residents there have beseeched the city to do something about the plant’s odor and the unfair sewage burden placed on them with more sewage to come.

PM2.5 Hazards
Homeless Shelter

Environmental justice advocate Ray Tompkins says homeless shelter residents are forced to breathe air filled with tiny particles that can become embedded deep in the lungs due to placement near cement factories.

Dredging Contaminated Soil
Escavator

Around the corner in this Daly City community, bulldozers cast diesel fumes into the air as workers clad in hazardous-materials jumpsuits rip up her once neatly groomed neighborhood park, now festooned with dozens of warning signs: CAUTION. NO TRESPASSING. HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS.

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