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The shuttle also travels to several outside locations, including the 24th Street Mission BART Station and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital — both of which can be difficult to access through the limited public transit options available in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015463\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1146px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Photo-2-1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015463\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Photo-2-1.png\" alt=\"A transportation map showing a shuttle service zone.\" width=\"1146\" height=\"649\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Photo-2-1.png 1146w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Photo-2-1-800x453.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Photo-2-1-1020x578.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Photo-2-1-160x91.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1146px) 100vw, 1146px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bayview Shuttle service zone. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/blog/new-community-shuttle-launched-bayview-take-ride\">SFMTA\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t need to repeat or to tell folks in this community what you already know and what you’ve heard already: That you’ve suffered from years of being burdened by pollution as well as lacking access to clean, safe, affordable transit options,” California Air Resources Board Member Cliff Rechtschaffen said, noting the decades of underinvestment in the historically lower-income community, that’s long been home to many of the city’s Black residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marlene Tran, a resident of nearby Visitacion Valley, who has for decades lobbied for more accessible transit options and language interpreters, attended Wednesday’s event to see the new shuttle buses in action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tran, who relies heavily on Muni, said public transit is a “lifeline” for people like her and urged Muni to focus more on outreach to minority ethnic groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Very few call into 311 — and they wonder why,” she said. “It’s because they need more multilingual modes of communication.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"more on Bayview-Hunters Point\" tag=\"bayview-hunters-point\"]The new initiative also aims to create local workforce pathways by recruiting Bayview residents to be shuttle drivers, with the goal of eventually getting Muni jobs, said Supervisor Shamann Walton, who represents the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to make sure that the jobs provided were actually union-wage jobs,” he said. “I’m super excited about what this shuttle is going to do for access and transportation in our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dyanna Volek, a Bayview resident who works at the San Francisco International Airport, said the new program will make her commute far more convenient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>Being able to access outer points and get to work, and being able to access BART, will be really helpful,” she said. “It’s been really difficult living in the southeast side, and I think this will make it a lot easier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volek also said she was optimistic that the shuttle service could revitalize struggling small businesses in her neighborhood by increasing accessibility to the Third Street commercial corridor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While acknowledging the city’s efforts in supporting the project, Volek said the Bayview-Hunters Point community deserved the most credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Really, it’s the community who put a lot of input and told the city what they needed and what they wanted — instead of the city telling them what they needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: This story originally stated that the shuttle drops off passengers at only six established locations in the neighborhood. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003cem>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap]fter breakfast and coffee every morning, James Bryant heads out the front door. From his home on a hill in San Francisco, he sees the Hunters Point Gantry Crane, what he calls the “West Coast Statue of Liberty.” The metal monolith sits on the edge of the Bay at the old Hunters Point Naval Shipyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is huge, and it’s breathtaking,” said Bryant, who has lived in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood for over four decades and is a neighborhood historian. “The gantry crane represents what New York has in their bay, what we have in our bay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crane is 450 feet tall and 730 feet long, so big it can be seen from three counties. It weighs as much as the Eiffel Tower. It’s an iconic piece of infrastructure, not unlike the Sutro Tower or the Bay Bridge, but perhaps the more underrated cousin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crane was used to load ships from the 1940s to the 1970s. For some, it’s a celebrated Bay Area icon worth. There’s even \u003ca href=\"https://www.hunterspointcrane.com/\">a whole fan website for the old crane\u003c/a>, where they sell merchandise and tell some of its history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the legacy and effect of the crane are much more profound than its metal form.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious listener Olivia Grubert wrote to Bay Curious asking for more information about the crane. So, let’s take a closer look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The crane’s history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To understand how the Hunters Point Gantry Crane came to be, we have to go back to the late 1940s when the Cold War started between the United States, the Soviet Union and their respective allies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Navy built the crane in 1947 for $2.5 million. At this point, it looked like a giant table from afar. On two sides, the crane loaded massive gun turrets onto warships. Altogether, it could lift more than a million pounds. The goal was to fix and load up ships fast so they could get back to battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005067\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005067\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-Hunters-Point-Gantry-Crane-SFPL-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1523\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-Hunters-Point-Gantry-Crane-SFPL-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-Hunters-Point-Gantry-Crane-SFPL-01-KQED-800x609.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-Hunters-Point-Gantry-Crane-SFPL-01-KQED-1020x777.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-Hunters-Point-Gantry-Crane-SFPL-01-KQED-160x122.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-Hunters-Point-Gantry-Crane-SFPL-01-KQED-1536x1170.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-Hunters-Point-Gantry-Crane-SFPL-01-KQED-1920x1462.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco on June 25, 1953. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The boats would pull in, and they were lifted and loaded,” Bryant said. “The idea was that we’re going to war and need to load these ships right now. These ships were major.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navy also tested missiles on the crane — Polaris, hydrogen bomb-tipped missiles. At Hunters Point, the Navy initially hurled missiles into the bay and retrieved them after. Later, the military shot them into mid-air, but an apparatus prevented them from flight. In the ’70s, when the Navy wanted to test more potent Poseidon missiles on the crane, they attached a 170-foot arch to strengthen it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the shipyard, the Navy also decontaminated ships after atomic bomb tests and established the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory. This process contaminated the soil in and around the base with radioactive chemicals, heavy metals and petroleum fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navy base remained active until 1974, and after that, a private company used the property for ship repair for a short period of time. The base was declared one of the nation’s most contaminated sites in 1989. The crane has remained, standing unused for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005326\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-12-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-12-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">the Hunters Point gantry crane at the naval shipyard in San Francisco on Sept. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A complex legacy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the history of the crane itself is relatively straightforward, its legacy is complex. On one hand, the Navy brought jobs to the Bay Area, much-needed jobs for people who had left the South.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shipyard employed as many as 18,000 people at its peak, many of whom were Black. They built and serviced ships for wartime efforts. Bryant said they came from the South — places like Alabama, Mississippi and Texas. For many of them, the shipyard jobs allowed them to buy homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryant said the crane reminds many people in the Bayview of the prosperity they were afforded by working at the shipyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was prosperity because they got to own a home,” he said. “They got to live in the best weather. You can’t beat the Bayview weather.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, the Hunters Point Crane is a reminder of another legacy. Radioactive contamination is still in the ground all these years later. The Navy is working on cleaning up the site, and just last year, the Navy \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1985646/radioactive-object-found-at-san-franciscos-hunters-point-naval-shipyard-raises-new-concerns\">unearthed two radioactive objects there\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005325\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005325\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-05-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-05-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-05-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An abandoned building at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco on Sept. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Navy did not respond to KQED’s email with a comment. But in the past, the Navy defended its remedies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community advocates like Bryant have called for a more thorough site cleanup for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can be eradicated. If it were on the other side of town, it would have been gone,” said Byrant, who worked for the Navy in the 1970s at the shipyard in public relations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All these years later, Bryant is now 70 and still raves about the crane but is worried about the contamination in the ground beneath it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can almost hear the buildings talking to you, [saying] there’s history here that no one’s talking about,” he said. “The Navy ships that went in there were loaded with nuclear stuff, which is one of the reasons why it is still sitting there because it was a little contaminated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Still work to be done’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Someone who knows a lot about this contamination and how it could be hurting the community is Arieann Harrison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison’s mother, Marie Harrison, pushed for the cleanup of the shipyard for decades before passing away in 2019 from lung disease. Harrison took up her mantle in a way and now leads the Marie Harrison Community Foundation, focused on environmental justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1979614/for-these-black-bayview-hunters-point-residents-reparations-include-safeguarding-against-rising-toxic-contamination\">advocating for an “absolute cleanup of the shipyard.\u003c/a>” But she believes there’s a “huge chance” the Navy will leave contamination in the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison grew up very close to the shipyard and believes over time, she was exposed to radioactive contamination. A local doctor tested her for contaminants and found high levels of a bunch of them — contaminants like lead, manganese, uranium and plutonium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A scientist told her that her case looks like “that of people serving in the military.” Because of all that new information, she’s worried her health issues are related to the contamination. The doctor who took Harrison’s tests and those of more than 150 others plans to create a registry of their results. She wants to expand testing across the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005327\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005327\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-14-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-14-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-14-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Bryant stands at Hillpoint Park overlooking the Hunters Point gantry crane at the naval shipyard in San Francisco on Sept. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I am still angry, and I am still hopeful for the future,” she said. “I have a lot of a vested interest in making sure that if it’s the last thing I do, things improve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison wants all the contaminated soil removed from the site. The Navy has removed some of it. Its solutions also include treating or sealing the contaminated soil under a thick layer of asphalt or dirt to contain it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Harrison worries those remedies aren’t enough because scientists expect human-caused climate change to raise sea levels. That could push water up from underneath the toxic site and spread the contamination into the Bay and the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unless the Navy removes toxic soil, she believes rising seas will cause the contamination “to seep out into the greater Bay Area.” Over the last year, the Navy announced it found several radioactive objects within the site, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1985646/radioactive-object-found-at-san-franciscos-hunters-point-naval-shipyard-raises-new-concerns\">raising concerns about the efficacy of the cleanup\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the Navy acknowledged for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979473/us-navy-acknowledges-toxic-groundwater-rising-in-bayview-hunters-point\">the first time that potentially toxic groundwater could surface at the shipyard in just over a decade\u003c/a>. The Navy said it’s taken steps to protect against a 100-year storm and three feet of sea-level rise, like extending a seawall and landfill cap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, an environmental justice nonprofit filed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1993505/cleanup-of-san-francisco-superfund-site-has-been-badly-mishandled-lawsuit-alleges\">a lawsuit alleging “egregious” mishandling of the cleanup of radioactive contamination\u003c/a> at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison is apprehensive about the contamination left underground because the city of San Francisco hopes to allow developers to build \u003ca href=\"https://sfocii.org/projects/hunters-point-shipyard-candlestick-point-2/overview\">thousands of homes on the site\u003c/a>. If and when developers build those homes, many people who live in them will have a view of the Hunters Point Crane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Harrison, the crane is a daily reminder of the contamination left in her community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me, [the crane] signifies that there’s still work to be done,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen Price: \u003c/strong>Every time Olivia Grubert drives over the Bay Bridge from Oakland, she notices this thing perched on the edge of the bay on the south side of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Grubert:\u003c/strong> You see this massive structure just kind of all by itself. And it seems that no one really knows too much about it. I keep pointing it out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen Price: \u003c/strong>It turns out that metal monolith has a name. It’s called the Hunters Point Gantry Crane. From a distance, you see the structure looks like an outline of a dining table with four legs and a rectangular top on top of that table on one side. A wide arch reaches up to the sky. And this thing is big. So big it can be seen from at least three counties. Olivia sent us this question:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Grubert: \u003c/strong>I live in Oakland, and I was curious, can you tell us about the massive crane at Hunters Point? How did it used to operate and why is it still around today?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen Price: \u003c/strong>The Hunters Point Gantry crane is 450 feet tall and 730 feet long. It weighs as much as the Eiffel Tower. It’s an iconic piece of infrastructure, not unlike the Sutro Tower or the Bay Bridge, but perhaps the more underrated cousin. What else is there to know? A whole lot. I’m Olivia Allen Price. On today’s episode, we dig into the Crane’s history by talking to San Francisco locals who see the crane as a piece of ingenuity, but also as a reminder of how actions by the U.S. Navy decades ago still haunt San Franciscans today. We’ll get into all of that just after a quick break. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[SPONSOR MESSAGE]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen Price: \u003c/strong>To help us answer Olivia’s question about the Hunters Point Crane, we’ve got KQED climate reporter Ezra David Romero here. Hey, Ezra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Hey, Olivia. Yeah. Whenever I think of the Hunters Point Crane, I always think of those cranes at the Port of Oakland that you can see from the Bay Bridge. I was always told that they inspired the imperial walkers. You know, those like creatures that walk in the snow in the \u003cem>Star Wars\u003c/em> film \u003cem>The Empire Strikes Back\u003c/em>. I personally love that scene where the rebel alliance takes down an imperial walker on the snow planet, Hoth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen Price: \u003c/strong>But Bay Curious did an episode in 2017 demystifying that idea. George Lucas is on record saying there’s no connection. Sorry, Ezra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>It may not have inspired George Lucas, but I learned the notion of the crane being related to war isn’t farfetched. James Bryant has lived in the Bayview for more than 40 years. He’s known in the community as a neighborhood historian. I took our question asker Olivia Grubert, to meet him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James Bryant: \u003c/strong>This is my house right here. I’m not going to disturb my wife. I’m gonna park here. Watch your step.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>But from his front porch, he sees the old gantry crane off in the distance every single day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James Bryant: \u003c/strong>There it is. What a picture. The west coast Statue of Liberty, right here. The Gantry Crane represents what New York has in their bay, we have in our bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>To me and Olivia, from this vantage point, it kind of looks like a futuristic metal space dog guarding San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James Bryant: \u003c/strong>It is huge and it’s breathtaking. You ever seen a crane like this anywhere in the world?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Grubert: \u003c/strong>I’m really excited we have this here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>To understand how the Hunters Point Gantry Crane came to be. We have to go back in time to the late 1940s when the Cold War started between the United States, the Soviet Union, and the respective allies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[music]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>The crane was built in 1947 for $2.5 million. At this point, it looked like a giant table from afar. On two sides, the crane loaded massive gun turrets on the warships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James Bryant: \u003c/strong>The overhead was being operated on two sides of the columns or the boats pulled in and they were being, you know, lifted, loaded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>All together, it could lift over 1 million pounds. The goal was to fix and load up ships fast so they could get back to battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James Bryant: \u003c/strong>The crane was used for loading like four or five ships at once. It was an idea that, you know what, we’re going to war and we need to load these ships like, right now. Because, you know, these ships were major.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>The Navy also tested missiles on the crane, Polaris missiles, which are hydrogen bomb tipped. I wasn’t able to find any archival recordings of a missile test from the Hunters Point Crane. But here’s what one sounded like in 1960 being shot out of a submarine off the Florida coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archival Tape: \u003c/strong>The George Washington goes down some 50 to 60 feet below the surface and the time for launching is at hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>At Hunters Point, the missiles were originally hurled into the bay and then later retrieved. Later they were shot into midair, but an apparatus prevented them from flight. In the 70s, when the Navy wanted to test stronger Poseidon missiles on the crane, they attached a 170 foot arch to strengthen it. Here’s a Poseidon being launched by the Navy off the Florida coast in 1972.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>[Archival Tape]\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>At the shipyard, the Navy decontaminated ships after atomic bomb tests and established the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory. This process contaminated the soil in and around the base with radioactive chemicals, heavy metals, and petroleum fuels. The Navy base remained active until 1974 and was used by a private company for ship repair after that. The base was declared one of the nation’s most contaminated sites in 1989. The crane has remained unused for decades. While the history of the crane is quite straightforward, its legacy is complex. On one hand, the Navy brought jobs to the Bay Area, much needed jobs for people who had left the South. The shipyard employed as many as 18,000 people at its peak, many of whom were black. They built in-service ships for wartime efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James Bryant: \u003c/strong>They came up from Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, and, you know, they were looking for some sort of prosperity. And imagine people who went in there, got jobs, ended up being homeowners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>So, it represented, like, prosperity, like opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James Bryant: \u003c/strong>There was two things for people who came up from the south and didn’t have a job. They didn’t have opportunity in those southern states. And it was prosperity because they got to own a home. They got to live in the best weather. You can’t beat this where they can’t beat the Bayview weather, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>But on the other hand, the hunters point crane is a reminder of another legacy. Radioactive contamination is still on the ground all these years later. The Navy is working on cleaning up the site. And just last year, two soil samples unearthed radioactive objects there. The Navy did not respond to my emails for comment. But in the past, the Navy defended its remedies. Community advocates like James have for years called for a more thorough cleanup of the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James Bryant: \u003c/strong>It could be eradicated. If it was on the other side of town, it would have been gone. You know what I mean? If it was a Sea Cliff, there would have never been an issue because the value of the homes and stuff, it should be prosperity again. That should switch Bayview Hunters Point from none to prosperity. It could provide jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>In the late 1970s. James worked for the Navy at the shipyard in public relations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James Bryant: \u003c/strong>I said, okay, but there’s something about me that you might know up front. And this was that. I don’t lie. I went along with that project for about two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>He left that job because he did not agree with a message the Navy wanted to portray about the contamination left at the shipyard. James now owns a public relations firm in the Bayview. All these years later, James is now 70 and still raves about the crane, but is worried about the contamination left in the ground beneath it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James Bryant: \u003c/strong>You can almost hear the buildings talk to you. There’s history here that no one is talking about. Somehow the Navy ships that went in there were loaded with the nuclear stuff, which is one of the reasons why it is still sitting there, because it was a little contaminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>A little contaminated?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James Bryant: \u003c/strong>Just a little [laughs]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Someone who knows a lot about this contamination and how it could be hurting the community is Arieann Harrison. We’re at her office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arieann Harrison \u003c/strong>How are you? Oh, you look so cute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Good to see you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>I met Ariana a few years ago. Her mom, Marie Harrison, pushed for the cleanup of the shipyard for decades before passing away in 2019 from lung disease. Ariana took up her mom’s mantle in a way, and now leads the Marie Harrison Community Foundation, which is focused on environmental justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arieann Harrison \u003c/strong>Right now, we’re still at, you know, absolutely clean up of the shipyard. Even though we know that there’s a really big, huge chance they’re not going to take all that stuff off from under the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Erin grew up very close to the shipyard and believes she was exposed to the radioactive contamination. A local doctor tested her for contaminants and found a bunch of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arieann Harrison: \u003c/strong>For me to see elevated levels of lead, which we usually see that in low income areas anyway. And manganese and, you know, radioactive isotopes and metals and all that other stuff that’s not good for you. And then to come back positive for PCI 24 — uranium and plutonium. I mean, come on, man, you know. And you have a scientist as saying that your case is that of people that were serving in the military, people that tested positive for this stuff. Come on. What do you do with that information?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Because of all that new information, she’s worried her health issues are related to the contamination. The doctor who took Ariana’s tests and more than 150 others plans to create a registry of their results. She wants to expand testing across the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arieann Harrison \u003c/strong>I remain hopeful. If you want to get yourself to our early grave, you can stay bitter, right? And stay angry. That was affecting my health, too. I am still angry and I know that and is still hopeful at the same time, for the future, you know. I have a lot of a vested interest in making sure if it’s the last thing I do, that things improve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Ariana believes a more thorough cleanup is needed. She wants all of the contaminated soil removed from the site, but the Navy has removed some of it. IT solutions also include treating or sealing the contaminated soil under a thick layer of asphalt or dirt to contain it. But she’s also worried those remedies aren’t enough because human caused climate change is expected to raise sea levels. That could push water up from underneath the toxic site and spread the contamination into the bay and the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arieann Harrison: \u003c/strong>Later on down the line, a year or two or three from now, because we don’t know what the science is projecting, what sea level rise is going to look like, that this stuff that’s under the ground is definitely going to seep out to the Greater Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Earlier this year, the Navy acknowledged for the first time that potentially toxic groundwater could surface at the shipyard in just over a decade. They say they’ve taken steps to protect against a 100-year storm and three feet of sea level rise like extending a seawall and a landfill cap. Their findings raise questions about the city’s plan to build thousands of homes here. If and when those homes are built. Many will have a view of the Hunters Point crane. For some, it’s an icon to be celebrated. There’s even a whole fan website for the old crane where they sell merchandise and tell some of the history behind it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arieann Harrison: \u003c/strong>We know that maybe they want to preserve that, which is fine as long as they, you know, do their best to clean up all the crap that’s around it you know. But to me, it signifies that there’s still work to be done. It’s like when you have war, there’s always a fallout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>It’s just that Arieann doesn’t want that fallout to any longer be on the shores of San Francisco. And in her case, the crane is a daily reminder of contamination left in her community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Music]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen Price: \u003c/strong>That was KQED’s Ezra David Romero. Thanks to Olivia Grubert for asking this week’s question. If you’ve got a question you’d like to hear answered on Bay Curious, head to Baycurious.org and ask. Next Monday is the start of Propfest, our podcast series that digs in deep on the propositions on California’s ballot this year. For two weeks, we’ll be dropping a new episode every Monday through Friday, each one covering one of the ten propositions that you’ll be voting on. We hope you’ll tune in so you can vote with confidence on the issues that matter to you. And honestly, the ones that maybe don’t matter to you yet, but you might care more about after you listen. It all kicks off Monday, September 23rd, so be sure you’re subscribed to Bay Curious so you don’t miss a thing. Bay Curious is made in San Francisco at member supported KQED. Our show is made by Amanda Font, Christopher Beal, Ana De Almeida Amaral, and me, Olivia Allen Price. Additional support from Jen Chien, Katrina Schwartz, Maha Sanad, Holly Kernan, and the whole KQED family. I’m Olivia Allen Price. We will see you next Monday. Bye!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003cem>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">A\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>fter breakfast and coffee every morning, James Bryant heads out the front door. From his home on a hill in San Francisco, he sees the Hunters Point Gantry Crane, what he calls the “West Coast Statue of Liberty.” The metal monolith sits on the edge of the Bay at the old Hunters Point Naval Shipyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is huge, and it’s breathtaking,” said Bryant, who has lived in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood for over four decades and is a neighborhood historian. “The gantry crane represents what New York has in their bay, what we have in our bay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crane is 450 feet tall and 730 feet long, so big it can be seen from three counties. It weighs as much as the Eiffel Tower. It’s an iconic piece of infrastructure, not unlike the Sutro Tower or the Bay Bridge, but perhaps the more underrated cousin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crane was used to load ships from the 1940s to the 1970s. For some, it’s a celebrated Bay Area icon worth. There’s even \u003ca href=\"https://www.hunterspointcrane.com/\">a whole fan website for the old crane\u003c/a>, where they sell merchandise and tell some of its history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the legacy and effect of the crane are much more profound than its metal form.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious listener Olivia Grubert wrote to Bay Curious asking for more information about the crane. So, let’s take a closer look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The crane’s history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To understand how the Hunters Point Gantry Crane came to be, we have to go back to the late 1940s when the Cold War started between the United States, the Soviet Union and their respective allies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Navy built the crane in 1947 for $2.5 million. At this point, it looked like a giant table from afar. On two sides, the crane loaded massive gun turrets onto warships. Altogether, it could lift more than a million pounds. The goal was to fix and load up ships fast so they could get back to battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005067\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005067\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-Hunters-Point-Gantry-Crane-SFPL-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1523\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-Hunters-Point-Gantry-Crane-SFPL-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-Hunters-Point-Gantry-Crane-SFPL-01-KQED-800x609.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-Hunters-Point-Gantry-Crane-SFPL-01-KQED-1020x777.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-Hunters-Point-Gantry-Crane-SFPL-01-KQED-160x122.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-Hunters-Point-Gantry-Crane-SFPL-01-KQED-1536x1170.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-Hunters-Point-Gantry-Crane-SFPL-01-KQED-1920x1462.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco on June 25, 1953. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The boats would pull in, and they were lifted and loaded,” Bryant said. “The idea was that we’re going to war and need to load these ships right now. These ships were major.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navy also tested missiles on the crane — Polaris, hydrogen bomb-tipped missiles. At Hunters Point, the Navy initially hurled missiles into the bay and retrieved them after. Later, the military shot them into mid-air, but an apparatus prevented them from flight. In the ’70s, when the Navy wanted to test more potent Poseidon missiles on the crane, they attached a 170-foot arch to strengthen it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the shipyard, the Navy also decontaminated ships after atomic bomb tests and established the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory. This process contaminated the soil in and around the base with radioactive chemicals, heavy metals and petroleum fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navy base remained active until 1974, and after that, a private company used the property for ship repair for a short period of time. The base was declared one of the nation’s most contaminated sites in 1989. The crane has remained, standing unused for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005326\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-12-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-12-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">the Hunters Point gantry crane at the naval shipyard in San Francisco on Sept. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A complex legacy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the history of the crane itself is relatively straightforward, its legacy is complex. On one hand, the Navy brought jobs to the Bay Area, much-needed jobs for people who had left the South.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shipyard employed as many as 18,000 people at its peak, many of whom were Black. They built and serviced ships for wartime efforts. Bryant said they came from the South — places like Alabama, Mississippi and Texas. For many of them, the shipyard jobs allowed them to buy homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryant said the crane reminds many people in the Bayview of the prosperity they were afforded by working at the shipyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was prosperity because they got to own a home,” he said. “They got to live in the best weather. You can’t beat the Bayview weather.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, the Hunters Point Crane is a reminder of another legacy. Radioactive contamination is still in the ground all these years later. The Navy is working on cleaning up the site, and just last year, the Navy \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1985646/radioactive-object-found-at-san-franciscos-hunters-point-naval-shipyard-raises-new-concerns\">unearthed two radioactive objects there\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005325\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005325\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-05-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-05-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-05-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An abandoned building at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco on Sept. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Navy did not respond to KQED’s email with a comment. But in the past, the Navy defended its remedies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community advocates like Bryant have called for a more thorough site cleanup for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can be eradicated. If it were on the other side of town, it would have been gone,” said Byrant, who worked for the Navy in the 1970s at the shipyard in public relations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All these years later, Bryant is now 70 and still raves about the crane but is worried about the contamination in the ground beneath it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can almost hear the buildings talking to you, [saying] there’s history here that no one’s talking about,” he said. “The Navy ships that went in there were loaded with nuclear stuff, which is one of the reasons why it is still sitting there because it was a little contaminated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Still work to be done’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Someone who knows a lot about this contamination and how it could be hurting the community is Arieann Harrison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison’s mother, Marie Harrison, pushed for the cleanup of the shipyard for decades before passing away in 2019 from lung disease. Harrison took up her mantle in a way and now leads the Marie Harrison Community Foundation, focused on environmental justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1979614/for-these-black-bayview-hunters-point-residents-reparations-include-safeguarding-against-rising-toxic-contamination\">advocating for an “absolute cleanup of the shipyard.\u003c/a>” But she believes there’s a “huge chance” the Navy will leave contamination in the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison grew up very close to the shipyard and believes over time, she was exposed to radioactive contamination. A local doctor tested her for contaminants and found high levels of a bunch of them — contaminants like lead, manganese, uranium and plutonium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A scientist told her that her case looks like “that of people serving in the military.” Because of all that new information, she’s worried her health issues are related to the contamination. The doctor who took Harrison’s tests and those of more than 150 others plans to create a registry of their results. She wants to expand testing across the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005327\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005327\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-14-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-14-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240918-HUNTERSPOINTCRANE-14-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Bryant stands at Hillpoint Park overlooking the Hunters Point gantry crane at the naval shipyard in San Francisco on Sept. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I am still angry, and I am still hopeful for the future,” she said. “I have a lot of a vested interest in making sure that if it’s the last thing I do, things improve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison wants all the contaminated soil removed from the site. The Navy has removed some of it. Its solutions also include treating or sealing the contaminated soil under a thick layer of asphalt or dirt to contain it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Harrison worries those remedies aren’t enough because scientists expect human-caused climate change to raise sea levels. That could push water up from underneath the toxic site and spread the contamination into the Bay and the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unless the Navy removes toxic soil, she believes rising seas will cause the contamination “to seep out into the greater Bay Area.” Over the last year, the Navy announced it found several radioactive objects within the site, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1985646/radioactive-object-found-at-san-franciscos-hunters-point-naval-shipyard-raises-new-concerns\">raising concerns about the efficacy of the cleanup\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the Navy acknowledged for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979473/us-navy-acknowledges-toxic-groundwater-rising-in-bayview-hunters-point\">the first time that potentially toxic groundwater could surface at the shipyard in just over a decade\u003c/a>. The Navy said it’s taken steps to protect against a 100-year storm and three feet of sea-level rise, like extending a seawall and landfill cap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, an environmental justice nonprofit filed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1993505/cleanup-of-san-francisco-superfund-site-has-been-badly-mishandled-lawsuit-alleges\">a lawsuit alleging “egregious” mishandling of the cleanup of radioactive contamination\u003c/a> at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison is apprehensive about the contamination left underground because the city of San Francisco hopes to allow developers to build \u003ca href=\"https://sfocii.org/projects/hunters-point-shipyard-candlestick-point-2/overview\">thousands of homes on the site\u003c/a>. If and when developers build those homes, many people who live in them will have a view of the Hunters Point Crane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Harrison, the crane is a daily reminder of the contamination left in her community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me, [the crane] signifies that there’s still work to be done,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen Price: \u003c/strong>Every time Olivia Grubert drives over the Bay Bridge from Oakland, she notices this thing perched on the edge of the bay on the south side of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Grubert:\u003c/strong> You see this massive structure just kind of all by itself. And it seems that no one really knows too much about it. I keep pointing it out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen Price: \u003c/strong>It turns out that metal monolith has a name. It’s called the Hunters Point Gantry Crane. From a distance, you see the structure looks like an outline of a dining table with four legs and a rectangular top on top of that table on one side. A wide arch reaches up to the sky. And this thing is big. So big it can be seen from at least three counties. Olivia sent us this question:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Grubert: \u003c/strong>I live in Oakland, and I was curious, can you tell us about the massive crane at Hunters Point? How did it used to operate and why is it still around today?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen Price: \u003c/strong>The Hunters Point Gantry crane is 450 feet tall and 730 feet long. It weighs as much as the Eiffel Tower. It’s an iconic piece of infrastructure, not unlike the Sutro Tower or the Bay Bridge, but perhaps the more underrated cousin. What else is there to know? A whole lot. I’m Olivia Allen Price. On today’s episode, we dig into the Crane’s history by talking to San Francisco locals who see the crane as a piece of ingenuity, but also as a reminder of how actions by the U.S. Navy decades ago still haunt San Franciscans today. We’ll get into all of that just after a quick break. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[SPONSOR MESSAGE]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen Price: \u003c/strong>To help us answer Olivia’s question about the Hunters Point Crane, we’ve got KQED climate reporter Ezra David Romero here. Hey, Ezra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Hey, Olivia. Yeah. Whenever I think of the Hunters Point Crane, I always think of those cranes at the Port of Oakland that you can see from the Bay Bridge. I was always told that they inspired the imperial walkers. You know, those like creatures that walk in the snow in the \u003cem>Star Wars\u003c/em> film \u003cem>The Empire Strikes Back\u003c/em>. I personally love that scene where the rebel alliance takes down an imperial walker on the snow planet, Hoth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen Price: \u003c/strong>But Bay Curious did an episode in 2017 demystifying that idea. George Lucas is on record saying there’s no connection. Sorry, Ezra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>It may not have inspired George Lucas, but I learned the notion of the crane being related to war isn’t farfetched. James Bryant has lived in the Bayview for more than 40 years. He’s known in the community as a neighborhood historian. I took our question asker Olivia Grubert, to meet him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James Bryant: \u003c/strong>This is my house right here. I’m not going to disturb my wife. I’m gonna park here. Watch your step.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>But from his front porch, he sees the old gantry crane off in the distance every single day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James Bryant: \u003c/strong>There it is. What a picture. The west coast Statue of Liberty, right here. The Gantry Crane represents what New York has in their bay, we have in our bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>To me and Olivia, from this vantage point, it kind of looks like a futuristic metal space dog guarding San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James Bryant: \u003c/strong>It is huge and it’s breathtaking. You ever seen a crane like this anywhere in the world?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Grubert: \u003c/strong>I’m really excited we have this here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>To understand how the Hunters Point Gantry Crane came to be. We have to go back in time to the late 1940s when the Cold War started between the United States, the Soviet Union, and the respective allies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[music]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>The crane was built in 1947 for $2.5 million. At this point, it looked like a giant table from afar. On two sides, the crane loaded massive gun turrets on the warships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James Bryant: \u003c/strong>The overhead was being operated on two sides of the columns or the boats pulled in and they were being, you know, lifted, loaded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>All together, it could lift over 1 million pounds. The goal was to fix and load up ships fast so they could get back to battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James Bryant: \u003c/strong>The crane was used for loading like four or five ships at once. It was an idea that, you know what, we’re going to war and we need to load these ships like, right now. Because, you know, these ships were major.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>The Navy also tested missiles on the crane, Polaris missiles, which are hydrogen bomb tipped. I wasn’t able to find any archival recordings of a missile test from the Hunters Point Crane. But here’s what one sounded like in 1960 being shot out of a submarine off the Florida coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archival Tape: \u003c/strong>The George Washington goes down some 50 to 60 feet below the surface and the time for launching is at hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>At Hunters Point, the missiles were originally hurled into the bay and then later retrieved. Later they were shot into midair, but an apparatus prevented them from flight. In the 70s, when the Navy wanted to test stronger Poseidon missiles on the crane, they attached a 170 foot arch to strengthen it. Here’s a Poseidon being launched by the Navy off the Florida coast in 1972.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>[Archival Tape]\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>At the shipyard, the Navy decontaminated ships after atomic bomb tests and established the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory. This process contaminated the soil in and around the base with radioactive chemicals, heavy metals, and petroleum fuels. The Navy base remained active until 1974 and was used by a private company for ship repair after that. The base was declared one of the nation’s most contaminated sites in 1989. The crane has remained unused for decades. While the history of the crane is quite straightforward, its legacy is complex. On one hand, the Navy brought jobs to the Bay Area, much needed jobs for people who had left the South. The shipyard employed as many as 18,000 people at its peak, many of whom were black. They built in-service ships for wartime efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James Bryant: \u003c/strong>They came up from Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, and, you know, they were looking for some sort of prosperity. And imagine people who went in there, got jobs, ended up being homeowners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>So, it represented, like, prosperity, like opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James Bryant: \u003c/strong>There was two things for people who came up from the south and didn’t have a job. They didn’t have opportunity in those southern states. And it was prosperity because they got to own a home. They got to live in the best weather. You can’t beat this where they can’t beat the Bayview weather, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>But on the other hand, the hunters point crane is a reminder of another legacy. Radioactive contamination is still on the ground all these years later. The Navy is working on cleaning up the site. And just last year, two soil samples unearthed radioactive objects there. The Navy did not respond to my emails for comment. But in the past, the Navy defended its remedies. Community advocates like James have for years called for a more thorough cleanup of the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James Bryant: \u003c/strong>It could be eradicated. If it was on the other side of town, it would have been gone. You know what I mean? If it was a Sea Cliff, there would have never been an issue because the value of the homes and stuff, it should be prosperity again. That should switch Bayview Hunters Point from none to prosperity. It could provide jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>In the late 1970s. James worked for the Navy at the shipyard in public relations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James Bryant: \u003c/strong>I said, okay, but there’s something about me that you might know up front. And this was that. I don’t lie. I went along with that project for about two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>He left that job because he did not agree with a message the Navy wanted to portray about the contamination left at the shipyard. James now owns a public relations firm in the Bayview. All these years later, James is now 70 and still raves about the crane, but is worried about the contamination left in the ground beneath it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James Bryant: \u003c/strong>You can almost hear the buildings talk to you. There’s history here that no one is talking about. Somehow the Navy ships that went in there were loaded with the nuclear stuff, which is one of the reasons why it is still sitting there, because it was a little contaminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>A little contaminated?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James Bryant: \u003c/strong>Just a little [laughs]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Someone who knows a lot about this contamination and how it could be hurting the community is Arieann Harrison. We’re at her office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arieann Harrison \u003c/strong>How are you? Oh, you look so cute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Good to see you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>I met Ariana a few years ago. Her mom, Marie Harrison, pushed for the cleanup of the shipyard for decades before passing away in 2019 from lung disease. Ariana took up her mom’s mantle in a way, and now leads the Marie Harrison Community Foundation, which is focused on environmental justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arieann Harrison \u003c/strong>Right now, we’re still at, you know, absolutely clean up of the shipyard. Even though we know that there’s a really big, huge chance they’re not going to take all that stuff off from under the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Erin grew up very close to the shipyard and believes she was exposed to the radioactive contamination. A local doctor tested her for contaminants and found a bunch of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arieann Harrison: \u003c/strong>For me to see elevated levels of lead, which we usually see that in low income areas anyway. And manganese and, you know, radioactive isotopes and metals and all that other stuff that’s not good for you. And then to come back positive for PCI 24 — uranium and plutonium. I mean, come on, man, you know. And you have a scientist as saying that your case is that of people that were serving in the military, people that tested positive for this stuff. Come on. What do you do with that information?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Because of all that new information, she’s worried her health issues are related to the contamination. The doctor who took Ariana’s tests and more than 150 others plans to create a registry of their results. She wants to expand testing across the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arieann Harrison \u003c/strong>I remain hopeful. If you want to get yourself to our early grave, you can stay bitter, right? And stay angry. That was affecting my health, too. I am still angry and I know that and is still hopeful at the same time, for the future, you know. I have a lot of a vested interest in making sure if it’s the last thing I do, that things improve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Ariana believes a more thorough cleanup is needed. She wants all of the contaminated soil removed from the site, but the Navy has removed some of it. IT solutions also include treating or sealing the contaminated soil under a thick layer of asphalt or dirt to contain it. But she’s also worried those remedies aren’t enough because human caused climate change is expected to raise sea levels. That could push water up from underneath the toxic site and spread the contamination into the bay and the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arieann Harrison: \u003c/strong>Later on down the line, a year or two or three from now, because we don’t know what the science is projecting, what sea level rise is going to look like, that this stuff that’s under the ground is definitely going to seep out to the Greater Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Earlier this year, the Navy acknowledged for the first time that potentially toxic groundwater could surface at the shipyard in just over a decade. They say they’ve taken steps to protect against a 100-year storm and three feet of sea level rise like extending a seawall and a landfill cap. Their findings raise questions about the city’s plan to build thousands of homes here. If and when those homes are built. Many will have a view of the Hunters Point crane. For some, it’s an icon to be celebrated. There’s even a whole fan website for the old crane where they sell merchandise and tell some of the history behind it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arieann Harrison: \u003c/strong>We know that maybe they want to preserve that, which is fine as long as they, you know, do their best to clean up all the crap that’s around it you know. But to me, it signifies that there’s still work to be done. It’s like when you have war, there’s always a fallout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>It’s just that Arieann doesn’t want that fallout to any longer be on the shores of San Francisco. And in her case, the crane is a daily reminder of contamination left in her community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Music]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen Price: \u003c/strong>That was KQED’s Ezra David Romero. Thanks to Olivia Grubert for asking this week’s question. If you’ve got a question you’d like to hear answered on Bay Curious, head to Baycurious.org and ask. 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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Activists and scientists have been sounding the alarm about radioactive contamination at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, the site of former U.S. Navy activity, for years. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In January, the Navy released a report acknowledging that, through human-caused climate change, toxic chemicals could rise with groundwater in parts of the site. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today, we’re sharing an episode from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11920960/why-cleaning-up-bayview-hunters-point-is-an-issue-of-reparations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 2022\u003c/a> with KQED climate reporter Ezra David Romero. In it, we meet residents of Bayview-Hunters Point who have been fighting for more information, and resources to deal with health problems that they attribute to this pollution. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC9866240012&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Hi, I’m Alan Montecillo in for Ericka Cruz Guevarra. And welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. For years, residents in San Francisco’s Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood have sounded the alarm about nearby pollution, especially from a Superfund site called the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. Activists worry that this pollution has already caused health problems in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>They’ve also worried that human caused climate change could make this problem worse by pushing toxic groundwater close to the surface. Back in August of 2022, we released an episode about the people in the Bayview who’ve been pushing for more information and solutions. In late January of this year, the Navy released a report that says by 2035, contaminated groundwater from heavy metals and, quote, low level radiological objects could surface in an area that was once used for ship repair and radiological research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>This could pose a threat to both current residents and future plans for the neighborhood, since the city also has big plans to build thousands of homes nearby. For long time activists, this news was vindication. But the story is far from over. Today, we’re going to take you back to that episode. You’ll meet activists who are on the frontlines of protecting the Bay of you from climate change. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>This episode originally ran on August 1st, 2022. In it, you’ll hear Ericka Cruz Guevarra speaking with KQED climate reporter Ezra David Romero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>As you are reporting a series of stories about how communities across the Bay area are responding to climate change and in particular, sea level rise. Your first story takes place in Bayview Hunters Point. Why did you want to start there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>I started off in Bayview Hunters Point because this whole project was based off of listening to people around the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Ezra David Romero is a climate reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>And when I listen to a bunch of community members, Bayview Hunters Point stood out because there’s all this work happening there, and they’re also worried about sea level rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arian Harrison: \u003c/strong>I want you to know that this community is super inundated with, with toxicity. We were always claiming that we we we were sick. You know, that a lot of people were dying of cancer and different stuff like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>I met a woman named Arian Harrison. She’s a fifth generation Bayview Hunters Point resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arian Harrison: \u003c/strong>I’ve been actually working, working and the community since 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>She actually has a job, a day job where she helps veterans find housing. But then the rest of her time, she advocates on behalf of people in the community who have health issues. And the big goal is to get, that pollution out of the community so it doesn’t affect their health anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And what exactly does Arian say is happening in the in the Bayview?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>From our perspective, people are getting sick. They’re finding contaminants in their bodies. They’re getting cancer. They’re having all these health ramifications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arian Harrison: \u003c/strong>I. I cannot fathom how big it really is. You understand this. And just from being here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>What they pinpoint. The community pinpoint is this Superfund site in their community called the Hunter’s Point Naval Shipyard. The Navy ran this site. They basically cleaned big ships during the Cold War when they were testing atomic bombs out of the ocean. When they brought them back, they cleaned them there. They had like a radiological laboratory there and all that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>And so it’s well documented that there are contaminants in the soil there, and there’s a process of cleaning it up to a certain point. And some of it’s never been cleaned up. Some of it has. And so their whole point is that because they live just feet away, their lives are affected. But it’s not just that one Superfund site. Bayview Hunters Point also has like Recology there, which is like trash, right? They also have the water treatment facility for all of San Francisco in that community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>There’s also all these other polluting industries there from like cement factories and things like that. So it’s a myriad of issues there. And the Superfund site is the biggest one, like the eyesore in the community from their perspective. Ariana and I met in her office. She was just telling me that, like, she started this work because her mother, Marie Harrison, passed away in 2019 and her mother was very active in trying to get this area cleaned up and for fighting for the health of Bayview Hunters Point residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arian Harrison: \u003c/strong>Her heart and her desire was was to save this community from the impact, the health impacts. So she knew what’s coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>She even chained herself outside of the Superfund site once at at another site another time. And the family believes that her lung cancer was tied to her time working at the Superfund site when she was a teenager. And then all of her community living there, and then all of her advocacy, like going and doing these tours of these toxic sites and things like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arian Harrison: \u003c/strong>My mother didn’t smoke cigarets, none of that stuff. Right? But she did do toxic tours and all the different stuff to see that she would do in her and, and her profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Arian Harrison: got her start at that funeral in many ways. You know, before then, she I think she was tangentially involved or because her mother. But she said she had this like this awakening moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arian Harrison: \u003c/strong>We find out a lot about yourself at a funeral. I did therapy all of my. But I had a lot going on inside my soul and my spirit. You know, how can I heal making this? Not for the few, but for the many. I know they thought that it was gonna go away once my mother was gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>She realized all these people are saying nice things about her mother. And she had this like was like, if I don’t stand up after this point and do this work, like, who’s going to do it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arian Harrison: \u003c/strong>We have to stand on the courage. And champion our people and child on the shoulders of those that stand here before us. What I learned in that moment was that love is in action work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>An action word?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arian Harrison: \u003c/strong>Yeah, love is an action word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What is she worried will happen in Bayview Hunters Point?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Her big worry is that people will come into contact with us with those contaminants, whether that’s like in the air, in ground water, just by living in proximity to those places. The next level is because of climate change. That’s an issue because as the water rises, it can come in contact with those contaminants in the soil. I want to give you a little bit of a creative picture to give you an understanding of this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Like pretend you like, you have a little tub, a kitchen tub, and you put sand and rocks in one side of it and the other side, you pour in water to a certain level and say, that’s the sea. Like where it’s at today, the bay. And then you slowly add water in it over time, right? Like that, sand will slowly become more moist to a point where, like, you can see the water on the top and then it, like, all becomes one. The issue here is that if there’s contaminants in that soil and the water is slowly coming up and it’s mixing with that existing infrastructure, we have and a lot of it’s aging, so there’s fear that the water can get in there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Lots of these contaminated sites are capped off. That’s where they clean it up to a certain point or don’t clean it up at all. And they put like a cement layer or a chalk layer or something over it, but it’s not capped from the bottom, it’s only on the top. So you so the scientists at UC Berkeley and UCLA say that sea level rise could eat away at that and then like, distribute those contaminants all over the Bay area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>It sounds like the water is pushing those contaminants up to the places that we live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Exactly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>It sounds like Bayview Hunters Point is sort of maybe of a worst case scenario, because there are already folks there. Do we know how dangerous these toxins are to residents living in the Bayview right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>So in my research, when I was looking at the Navy documents, they basically determined that safe enough to live in these areas because they have temporary fixes over some of these contaminated spots. Maybe it’s a cap, maybe it’s been partially cleaned up, maybe they’ve tested it and didn’t find enough of a contaminant that could harm human health. So they’ve said in all these ways that it’s like safe. But the community is saying what’s happening to our health? Like, why are we continue getting this sick?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>This is beyond just things that happen in communities from smoking or like drinking or things like that, saying that one person’s cancer is caused by this one contaminant in the soil near their house. Like you have to have like a cause and effect, right? And that can be hard to determine when it comes to contaminants. And that’s sort of why the community is testing their own bodies. There’s a physician there named Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai: \u003c/strong>Hi. I’m the founder, the principal investigator and the medical director, of the Hunters Point, community bio monitoring program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Who grew up in that community who saw these people getting cancer, having these, like, lung disease, like cancer, and really young people, animals dying, all these things. And she was like, we should test people’s bodies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai: \u003c/strong>There was some of the original work that was done that identified of breast cancer clusters. And there are always been a documentation of disease clusters like asthma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>They’re testing urine and finding out what contaminants are there. And this is showing them what’s in their bodies. It’s it’s still a little bit hard to say like what that actually will do to them. But they’re saying they want to collect enough evidence to like, just even have a sense of what’s going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, what is Doctor Porter some guy seeing in people’s bodies when she does these tests?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>She has all these maps around her office, and there’s. They’re all of Bayview hunters point one map is full of pushpins, each color coordinated with contaminant they found in someone’s body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai: \u003c/strong>You know, this is lit. It’s mercury, it’s strontium, it’s uranium. Daughters of uranium. Cesium. Thallium. They have no role in the human body. They don’t belong the human body. And there is no justification for any of them being in the human body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>And the other one shows like sicknesses and ailments people have, whether that’s cancer or whether that’s asthma, and that correlates all those. And so she’s tested more than a couple hundred people, at least 1 or 2 times, and they’re seeing all those things in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai: \u003c/strong>There’s a woman here who’s got uranium 17 times higher than reference range. There are people here who have, concentrations that exceed maximum detectable A level. Again, the lady when I get the urine specimen back and it had uranium 17 times higher. The reference really just set my hair on fire. I had never seen anything like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What is she doing with this data?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>She’s going to use this information for her own toxic registry. She’s already sending a lot of it to the California Cancer Registry. But she wants to create her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai: \u003c/strong>A toxic registry identifies people who have a history of exposure, who have evidence of exposure, and who have expressions of disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>The whole goal is to have a structured legal settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai: \u003c/strong>And it certainly is going to help us when we, you know, suck the navy in the jar. You know, that’s what I, what I’m looking forward to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>And why do they want to have a lawsuit? It’s because she says people are going to have all these health cost, right? Like, it costs a lot to be treated for cancer or leukemia or asthma or any of these things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And I know Arianna took this test, too, right. I’m curious what she learned from that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Yeah. She found a number of things, above reference range for a human. Cadmium. Chromium. I asked her, like, what does that feel like in her body? You know, it was like a hard thing to hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arian Harrison: \u003c/strong>In very tame fluid. 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I did get an emailed statement on behalf of them and the city and County of San Francisco. They basically said that we know about this, that we’re studying how sea level rise is going to affect groundwater across San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>There’s this study that’s happening. That’s what’s to come out in the next couple months. But they said it’s not going to include the contaminants of like, baby hunters, but it’s just going to look at groundwater. So there’s been some complaints from community residents and Bayview Hunters Point. And then the San Francisco civil grand jury put out a report that said, like, San Francisco needs to basically do more. And there are some, like, strong language in there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>That said, like the San Francisco’s and the Navy’s processes around this are like impenetrable, hard to understand and that even experts have a hard time understanding it. So how can community members or San Franciscans know what’s going on with their health or like, know what the exposure rate is if, like, they can’t even understand the documents? So there was this calling out of like, you need to do better, San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arian Harrison: \u003c/strong>I’m here today on the stairs of the mayor’s office, with all of our huge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>People that were able to make it today. So I met Arian Harrison: again outside of City Hall, this time at a protest. After that, great civil grand jury report came out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arian Harrison: \u003c/strong>We would like to welcome our mayor, as well as our supervisors. To join us in this fight. We need for you to be on our side. We need us to fight together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arian Harrison: \u003c/strong>We don’t want to fight against you. 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You know, and thinking about sea level rise and climate change, if it’s going to stay in the ground, like cap it all around so it can’t get into people’s homes, into their bodies any more than it already is. That’s the first thing. Second, she wants reparations for the community because this is a community that’s like was largely African-American and then also just people of color in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Who have lived with racism there, who have lived with redlining because of all the laws in place, they couldn’t move anywhere else. Then it becomes your home, and this is where you live and you love it. And, you know, like, why do you want to live somewhere else? But this is like your history in a place. 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In late January of this year, the Navy released a report that says by 2035, contaminated groundwater from heavy metals and, quote, low level radiological objects could surface in an area that was once used for ship repair and radiological research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>This could pose a threat to both current residents and future plans for the neighborhood, since the city also has big plans to build thousands of homes nearby. For long time activists, this news was vindication. But the story is far from over. Today, we’re going to take you back to that episode. You’ll meet activists who are on the frontlines of protecting the Bay of you from climate change. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>This episode originally ran on August 1st, 2022. In it, you’ll hear Ericka Cruz Guevarra speaking with KQED climate reporter Ezra David Romero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>As you are reporting a series of stories about how communities across the Bay area are responding to climate change and in particular, sea level rise. Your first story takes place in Bayview Hunters Point. Why did you want to start there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>I started off in Bayview Hunters Point because this whole project was based off of listening to people around the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Ezra David Romero is a climate reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>And when I listen to a bunch of community members, Bayview Hunters Point stood out because there’s all this work happening there, and they’re also worried about sea level rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arian Harrison: \u003c/strong>I want you to know that this community is super inundated with, with toxicity. We were always claiming that we we we were sick. You know, that a lot of people were dying of cancer and different stuff like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>I met a woman named Arian Harrison. She’s a fifth generation Bayview Hunters Point resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arian Harrison: \u003c/strong>I’ve been actually working, working and the community since 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>She actually has a job, a day job where she helps veterans find housing. But then the rest of her time, she advocates on behalf of people in the community who have health issues. And the big goal is to get, that pollution out of the community so it doesn’t affect their health anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And what exactly does Arian say is happening in the in the Bayview?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>From our perspective, people are getting sick. They’re finding contaminants in their bodies. They’re getting cancer. They’re having all these health ramifications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arian Harrison: \u003c/strong>I. I cannot fathom how big it really is. You understand this. And just from being here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>What they pinpoint. The community pinpoint is this Superfund site in their community called the Hunter’s Point Naval Shipyard. The Navy ran this site. They basically cleaned big ships during the Cold War when they were testing atomic bombs out of the ocean. When they brought them back, they cleaned them there. They had like a radiological laboratory there and all that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>And so it’s well documented that there are contaminants in the soil there, and there’s a process of cleaning it up to a certain point. And some of it’s never been cleaned up. Some of it has. And so their whole point is that because they live just feet away, their lives are affected. But it’s not just that one Superfund site. Bayview Hunters Point also has like Recology there, which is like trash, right? 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So she knew what’s coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>She even chained herself outside of the Superfund site once at at another site another time. And the family believes that her lung cancer was tied to her time working at the Superfund site when she was a teenager. And then all of her community living there, and then all of her advocacy, like going and doing these tours of these toxic sites and things like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arian Harrison: \u003c/strong>My mother didn’t smoke cigarets, none of that stuff. Right? But she did do toxic tours and all the different stuff to see that she would do in her and, and her profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Arian Harrison: got her start at that funeral in many ways. You know, before then, she I think she was tangentially involved or because her mother. But she said she had this like this awakening moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arian Harrison: \u003c/strong>We find out a lot about yourself at a funeral. I did therapy all of my. But I had a lot going on inside my soul and my spirit. You know, how can I heal making this? Not for the few, but for the many. I know they thought that it was gonna go away once my mother was gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>She realized all these people are saying nice things about her mother. And she had this like was like, if I don’t stand up after this point and do this work, like, who’s going to do it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arian Harrison: \u003c/strong>We have to stand on the courage. And champion our people and child on the shoulders of those that stand here before us. What I learned in that moment was that love is in action work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>An action word?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arian Harrison: \u003c/strong>Yeah, love is an action word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What is she worried will happen in Bayview Hunters Point?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Her big worry is that people will come into contact with us with those contaminants, whether that’s like in the air, in ground water, just by living in proximity to those places. The next level is because of climate change. That’s an issue because as the water rises, it can come in contact with those contaminants in the soil. 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And they put like a cement layer or a chalk layer or something over it, but it’s not capped from the bottom, it’s only on the top. So you so the scientists at UC Berkeley and UCLA say that sea level rise could eat away at that and then like, distribute those contaminants all over the Bay area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>It sounds like the water is pushing those contaminants up to the places that we live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Exactly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>It sounds like Bayview Hunters Point is sort of maybe of a worst case scenario, because there are already folks there. 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And that can be hard to determine when it comes to contaminants. And that’s sort of why the community is testing their own bodies. There’s a physician there named Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai: \u003c/strong>Hi. I’m the founder, the principal investigator and the medical director, of the Hunters Point, community bio monitoring program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Who grew up in that community who saw these people getting cancer, having these, like, lung disease, like cancer, and really young people, animals dying, all these things. And she was like, we should test people’s bodies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai: \u003c/strong>There was some of the original work that was done that identified of breast cancer clusters. And there are always been a documentation of disease clusters like asthma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>They’re testing urine and finding out what contaminants are there. And this is showing them what’s in their bodies. It’s it’s still a little bit hard to say like what that actually will do to them. But they’re saying they want to collect enough evidence to like, just even have a sense of what’s going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, what is Doctor Porter some guy seeing in people’s bodies when she does these tests?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>She has all these maps around her office, and there’s. They’re all of Bayview hunters point one map is full of pushpins, each color coordinated with contaminant they found in someone’s body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai: \u003c/strong>You know, this is lit. It’s mercury, it’s strontium, it’s uranium. Daughters of uranium. Cesium. Thallium. They have no role in the human body. They don’t belong the human body. And there is no justification for any of them being in the human body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>And the other one shows like sicknesses and ailments people have, whether that’s cancer or whether that’s asthma, and that correlates all those. And so she’s tested more than a couple hundred people, at least 1 or 2 times, and they’re seeing all those things in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai: \u003c/strong>There’s a woman here who’s got uranium 17 times higher than reference range. There are people here who have, concentrations that exceed maximum detectable A level. Again, the lady when I get the urine specimen back and it had uranium 17 times higher. The reference really just set my hair on fire. I had never seen anything like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What is she doing with this data?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>She’s going to use this information for her own toxic registry. She’s already sending a lot of it to the California Cancer Registry. But she wants to create her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai: \u003c/strong>A toxic registry identifies people who have a history of exposure, who have evidence of exposure, and who have expressions of disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>The whole goal is to have a structured legal settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai: \u003c/strong>And it certainly is going to help us when we, you know, suck the navy in the jar. You know, that’s what I, what I’m looking forward to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>And why do they want to have a lawsuit? It’s because she says people are going to have all these health cost, right? Like, it costs a lot to be treated for cancer or leukemia or asthma or any of these things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And I know Arianna took this test, too, right. I’m curious what she learned from that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Yeah. She found a number of things, above reference range for a human. Cadmium. Chromium. I asked her, like, what does that feel like in her body? You know, it was like a hard thing to hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arian Harrison: \u003c/strong>In very tame fluid. Muscle tightness, tingling on feet, hair loss, hair falling out of my head, out of my head like a cancer patient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Her feet get really bloated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arian Harrison: \u003c/strong>There’s also. I want your eyes feel like they have balls in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>There was a whole list of things within her body that she believes are tied to. Tied to having these things in her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, what is the city said about all of this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>I reached out to Mayor London Breed and Shamann Walton. He’s the district ten supervisor over the Bayview Hunters Point area, and their staff said they weren’t available for interviews on this topic. I reached out multiple times. I did get an emailed statement on behalf of them and the city and County of San Francisco. They basically said that we know about this, that we’re studying how sea level rise is going to affect groundwater across San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>There’s this study that’s happening. That’s what’s to come out in the next couple months. But they said it’s not going to include the contaminants of like, baby hunters, but it’s just going to look at groundwater. So there’s been some complaints from community residents and Bayview Hunters Point. And then the San Francisco civil grand jury put out a report that said, like, San Francisco needs to basically do more. And there are some, like, strong language in there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>That said, like the San Francisco’s and the Navy’s processes around this are like impenetrable, hard to understand and that even experts have a hard time understanding it. So how can community members or San Franciscans know what’s going on with their health or like, know what the exposure rate is if, like, they can’t even understand the documents? So there was this calling out of like, you need to do better, San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arian Harrison: \u003c/strong>I’m here today on the stairs of the mayor’s office, with all of our huge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>People that were able to make it today. So I met Arian Harrison: again outside of City Hall, this time at a protest. After that, great civil grand jury report came out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arian Harrison: \u003c/strong>We would like to welcome our mayor, as well as our supervisors. To join us in this fight. We need for you to be on our side. We need us to fight together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arian Harrison: \u003c/strong>We don’t want to fight against you. We want you to fight for us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>She basically said, you know, she like, loves that there’s a black woman as a mayor, and she and the supervisor is also a black man. And it’s like, great for representation. But she wants them to, like, care about baby hunters, point people even more through action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arian Harrison: \u003c/strong>And I want to invite our mayor, whom we love, with all the great things that she’s done to show us that she loves us back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So what does Arian believe needs to be done in the Bay view?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Ariane first would like to see all of that contamination cleaned up, like all that taken out of the Bayview Hunters Point area. Cleaned up to a level where it’s not going to harm human health. You know, and thinking about sea level rise and climate change, if it’s going to stay in the ground, like cap it all around so it can’t get into people’s homes, into their bodies any more than it already is. That’s the first thing. Second, she wants reparations for the community because this is a community that’s like was largely African-American and then also just people of color in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Who have lived with racism there, who have lived with redlining because of all the laws in place, they couldn’t move anywhere else. Then it becomes your home, and this is where you live and you love it. And, you know, like, why do you want to live somewhere else? But this is like your history in a place. And so she wants to see reparations, whether in the form of money for descendants of slaves, and then to like for the negative health outcomes that people are experiencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arian Harrison: \u003c/strong>One thing that you can bet your bottom dollar is that we’re going to need long term care. We’re going to need need professionals for our unique circumstances, you know, choose just to prolong life and also to make sure that this doesn’t happen ever again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What did you learn, Ezra, about why climate change is also a reparations story?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I went into the series not thinking about that. I went into like this reporting like, oh, I’m going to report on sea level rise in these communities because communities of color are like way more likely to feel the effects of climate change, just like well documented across like even the U.S. EPA has a report about it that came out, came out last year. So I started off in that place. I wanted to I wanted to talk to people who are the worst, the most affected. And when I talked to them, they just said, these are the two things we want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>You like want reparations for the past because we want a good future. And the good future includes planning and adapting to climate change as like a shoreline community. And so I saw these things as intertwined because they see them as intertwined. They want like safety, hope. They want like to thrive and not have contaminated water, rush up on them or permeate their homes. I think that’s what I learned. I think that’s why the two are two are one and the same because they’re saying like, these are people who are living it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Ezra, thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Hey, thanks for having me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>That was Ezra David Romero, a climate reporter with KQED. Speaking with Bay host Ericka Cruz Guevarra in his most recent reporting, Ezra heard back from Michael Pound, an environmental coordinator with the Navy. He defended the Navy’s work to prepare the site for new housing development. In a statement, Mayor London Breed said that her office is working with the Navy to make sure that the community’s health is protected. Shamann Walton represents Bayview Hunters Point on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, declined an interview with Ezra for his story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5 p.m. Thursday, October 6: \u003c/strong>A government oversight committee with San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors recommended Thursday that the city strengthen protections against climate change-fueled flooding in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several members of the board said they will pursue an independent task force over the next 18 months to examine how rising groundwater could mix with contaminants and expose the community of more than 35,000 people to toxic water and fumes. They also say an independent study conducted by outside researchers is needed to understand the issue fully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not just about Bayview-Hunters Point,” Supervisor Connie Chan said. “It is to help us think about and question the future of San Francisco in terms of our waterfront areas and how we protect our residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recommendations will now be taken up for consideration by the full board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials sent a memo to the nonprofit group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, that said \u003ca href=\"https://peer.org/epa-says-hunters-point-will-never-be-fully-cleaned/\">the agency plans to allow much of the toxic contamination to remain forever underground \u003c/a>with potential land use restrictions and caps over toxics. But community groups and residents say they want all the contamination removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memo seemed to contradict what Angeles Herrera, assistant director for Region 9 of the EPA, told the supervisors in late September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bottom line is that EPA will not commit to the full cleanup of Hunters Point,” said Jeff Ruch, PEER’s director, in a statement. “As things stand now, the plan at Hunters Point is to pave over contamination rather than remove it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need a full cleanup of the shipyard and all those contaminants, toxins and radioactive elements removed,” said Bayview resident Blair Sandler, “so that kids and pets can play and that food can be grown in people’s yards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents asked the board to add language to require a full cleanup into its recommendations. They declined, but at the end of Thursday’s hearing Supervisor Dean Preston told community members the discussion is far from over and that the board will consider other issues related to the shipyard in the near term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, 2:24 p.m. October 1: \u003c/strong>Several members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, including its president, Shamann Walton, are challenging Mayor London Breed in an effort to bolster protections against climate change-fueled flooding for residents of Bayview-Hunters Point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Walton, who is pursuing an independent commission to make sure that happens, also urged U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials Thursday, during an oversight committee hearing at City Hall, to compel the Navy to update the climate science it uses to inform the toxic cleanup at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, an 866-acre federal Superfund site the EPA has \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">designated as highly contaminated with hazardous waste. Radioactive contamination remains buried in the soil along the edge of Bayview-Hunters Point, on the city’s southeast shoreline, among the most polluted areas of the entire San Francisco Bay.[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='superfund']\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In June, the San Francisco civil grand jury found the city, the Navy and the regulators overseeing the site had\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://civilgrandjury.sfgov.org/2021_2022/2022%20CGJ%20Report_Buried%20Problems%20and%20a%20Buried%20Process%20-%20The%20Hunters%20Point%20Naval%20Shipyard%20in%20a%20Time%20of%20Climate%20Change.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> not adequately accounted for how rising groundwater could mix with toxics and expose residents to contamination\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. With the pace and scale of climate change, Bay Area climate scientists are increasingly worried the worst-case scenarios will become a reality, which could mean inundation of toxic sites from both above and below.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The report seemed to confirm what Bayview-Hunters Point residents have long been saying: that the city is not acting fast enough on the issue.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Francisco’s supervisors said they agree with most of the jury’s findings and have expressed frustration with the city’s lack of action on the issue. Walton would like to secure resources for an independent commission and a fast-tracked, third-party study of how groundwater rise could impact the Superfund site and the community. He would also like the city and all federal agencies involved to increase oversight of the cleanup to protect the health of residents.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Groundwater and sea level rise has not been afforded the level of review and research necessary to protect residents of the shipyard, and understanding the additional science is important to keeping people safe,” Walton said during Thursday’s hearing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tom Paulino, the mayor’s liaison to the Board of Supervisors,\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> reiterated the mayor’s objections to the report \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">when pressed at Thursday’s hearing\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Breed has said she mostly disagrees with its findings and argues that the city is working with regulators, the Navy and other experts on a response to the climate threat that is “robust and appropriate.” A five-year Navy review of the Superfund site beginning in March 2023 could include updated climate science. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Paulino said “additional elements of oversight” aren’t needed and would be “duplicative” of the existing structures in place. He noted the mayor’s team is willing to work collaboratively with the Board on the issue.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927447\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11927447\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS50006_047_SanFrancisco_JuneteenthKickoffRally_06172021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a suit with a blue tie speaks at a rally in front of a microphone.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS50006_047_SanFrancisco_JuneteenthKickoffRally_06172021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS50006_047_SanFrancisco_JuneteenthKickoffRally_06172021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS50006_047_SanFrancisco_JuneteenthKickoffRally_06172021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS50006_047_SanFrancisco_JuneteenthKickoffRally_06172021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS50006_047_SanFrancisco_JuneteenthKickoffRally_06172021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Shamann Walton and his fellow supervisors are challenging Mayor Breed and the Navy over Bayview-Hunters Point. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The jury recommended the city pay for an independent study, using multiple sea-level-rise scenarios, to determine how groundwater rise could affect toxic contamination in the soil at the Superfund site. Its report also recommended convening a permanent oversight committee to examine and question decisions about the cleanup, and communicate requests from residents and the city to the Navy and regulators. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sara Miles, a member of the jury, said she’s happy the Board of Supervisors is taking the report seriously.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There’s no way to erase or make good all the harm that has been done,” she said, noting\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1979614/for-these-black-bayview-hunters-point-residents-reparations-include-safeguarding-against-rising-toxic-contamination\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that local doctors have found contamination in resident’s bodies.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> “We’re getting somewhere. President Walton wants to take some responsibility. I think that’s good.”\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bayview community members have also pressed city leaders to take action. Arieann Harrison, an organizer with the Marie Harrison Community Foundation, said that the board is taking a step in the right direction to protect residents, but that more work is needed. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s time to take it to big wigs,” she said. “We need our Nancy Pelosi’s to come and speak to the issue too. We need them to stop skipping past our community like we are invisible.”\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hunters Point Biomonitoring Foundation tested the urine of Harrison and other residents in the past three years and found high levels of contaminants such as uranium, although those tests were not independently confirmed by the health officials. “If I tested positive for that stuff, I’m pretty sure that a lot of other residents will test positive as well,” she said.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Shamann Walton, president, SF Board of Supervisors\"]‘Groundwater and sea level rise has not been afforded the level of review and research necessary to protect residents of the shipyard, and understanding the additional science is important to keeping people safe.’[/pullquote]In recent decades the Navy has partially cleaned up the Superfund site and is preparing it for eventual development into a sweeping new neighborhood with mixed-use construction of businesses, research institutions and thousands of homes.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The board invited Navy officials but they declined saying in a letter that they disagree with the jury’s report and have accounted for both sea level rise and groundwater rise at the site. The Navy is “methodical in its cleanup approach, which is based on the best available data, science and engineering,” the letter said. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The letter stated that the next five-year review will “include an evaluation of the potential effects of sea level rise and associated groundwater elevation changes on the remedies currently in place.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“While we appreciate the written responses, it is unfortunate that the regulatory bodies, as well as the Navy, cannot be here to present the data in person,” Supervisor Connie Chan said at the early September hearing.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At Thursday’s hearing, Angeles Herrera, assistant director for Region 9 of the EPA, said the agency will “set the expectation for the Navy” that it must examine the most up-to-date climate science of how rising water could move toxics around the site and into the community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Residents have long complained about the Navy’s lack of transparency on the cleanup. At Thursday’s hearing, Walton pressed Herrera on how far the EPA will go to push the Navy if it does not cooperate. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“If we have to go to the Pentagon, we’ll go to the Pentagon to bring up these issues, and to make sure that what is done at the site is protective of human health and the environment,” Herrera said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Walton said he is pushing for a 100% clean-up of the site before the land is allowed to be redeveloped into housing or businesses. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In mid-September, at Chan’s behest, San Francisco’s deputy city attorney determined that the board has the power to subpoena the Navy officials, but advised against it, given the lengthy and time-consuming process. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The board’s recommendations will be discussed at the Oct.\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/gao100622_agenda.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 6 Government Audit and Oversight Committee meeting\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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He would also like the city and all federal agencies involved to increase oversight of the cleanup to protect the health of residents.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Groundwater and sea level rise has not been afforded the level of review and research necessary to protect residents of the shipyard, and understanding the additional science is important to keeping people safe,” Walton said during Thursday’s hearing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tom Paulino, the mayor’s liaison to the Board of Supervisors,\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> reiterated the mayor’s objections to the report \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">when pressed at Thursday’s hearing\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. 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I think that’s good.”\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bayview community members have also pressed city leaders to take action. Arieann Harrison, an organizer with the Marie Harrison Community Foundation, said that the board is taking a step in the right direction to protect residents, but that more work is needed. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s time to take it to big wigs,” she said. “We need our Nancy Pelosi’s to come and speak to the issue too. 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