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Next Event: Dec 14, 2024

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NEXT EVENT - Saturday - December 14, 2024

Hunters Point

"... whatever waste there is, the idea is bring it to Bayview-Hunters Point. People of color always get dumped on because of environmental racism." — Espanola Jackson, Activist

NRDL

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

Midway Village

Next to PG&E with hazardous contamination — The federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry released a document showing high levels of genetic abnormalities.

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Visit the Phelp's raw sewage plant and source of the moniker "San Francisco’s outhouse" for impoverished, isolated and largely African American neighborhoods and Alex Griffith Housing near Candlestick park.

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By Alex Griffith housing, from Hunters Point, looking at UCLF lab
San Francisco Toxic Tour road, view of naval ship yard
San Francisco view through a fence, overlooking industrial area and raw sewage plant
San Francisco behind a fence

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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.

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.

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.

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:

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