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There is no doubt that \u003ca href=\"https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/Press-Releases/display-pressreleases/Article/2835280/navy-to-christen-future-usns-harvey-milk/\">the future sailors aboard this ship will be inspired by Milk's life and legacy\u003c/a>,\" Del Toro said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stuart Milk, Milk's nephew and the co-founder of the Harvey Milk Foundation, spoke at the event and said one of his uncle's dreams was \"for service members to serve with authenticity and not be forced to hide who they were and who they love.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895495\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11895495\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1236396010-1.jpg\" alt=\"Three men stand together outside at an event with white chairs in the background. From left to right, a man in a bow tie and suit, another man in a navy hat and glasses holding a photo of Harvey Milk in naval uniform, and right, a smiling man in a suit with a goatee.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1236396010-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1236396010-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1236396010-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1236396010-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1236396010-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, David Campos, vice chair of the California Democratic Party; Nicole Murray-Ramirez, an LGBTQ+ activist, holding a photo of Harvey Milk; and Bevan Dufty, director of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District pose for a photo before the launching of the USNS Harvey Milk in San Diego on Nov. 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Ariana Drehsler/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://milkfoundation.org/about/harvey-milk-biography/\">Harvey Milk served in the Navy from 1951 to 1955\u003c/a>, including during the Korean War. His nephew said the Navy provided the Milk family with the documents outlining his discharge and it was \"less than honorable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milk says the Navy approached him about reversing his uncle's dishonorable discharge posthumously, but that he decided against it as a reminder that not everyone was treated with honor.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11706248/40-years-after-assassinations-assessing-the-legacies-of-harvey-milk-and-george-moscone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">40 Years After Assassinations, Assessing the Legacies of Harvey Milk and George Moscone\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11706248/40-years-after-assassinations-assessing-the-legacies-of-harvey-milk-and-george-moscone\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11708059\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1-800x522.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1-1020x665.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1-1200x783.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 27, 1978, San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone were gunned down in City Hall by former Supervisor Dan White. Take a look back at a San Francisco that was at a crossroads and the day that changed the city forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"We have to teach our history to prevent ourselves from going backwards,\" Stuart Milk said Saturday. \"This navy ship sends an important message to the world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1977, after his Navy career, Milk became the first openly gay elected official in California when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. But he was assassinated just one year later by a former city supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Campos, who also served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, and who is now a candidate for the state Assembly, told KQED the naming is \"historic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The navy kicked Harvey Milk out with a dishonorable discharge for being gay, and it now is naming a ship after him. It shows how far we in the LGBTQ community have come,\" Campos said. \"This ship will be an ambassador for LGBTQ inclusion and dignity as it travels the world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another politician, Bevan Dufty, an out gay man who serves on the Bay Area Rapid Transit board of directors, said the ship's christening was a testament to Milk's legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What was monumental about the christening is how many straight white men, many of whom in the military, stood up and spoke eloquently and powerfully about who Harvey was, the fight he gave his life for, and the importance of authenticity and coming out, and being inclusive,\" Dufty said. \"You have to shake your head a little bit and go wow, this is amazing. It's one thing to stand at the Board of Supervisors and extoll the virtues of Harvey.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Dufty said, \"to have a naval ship named in his honor is huge. It's not quite as big as the ship, but it's huge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two sponsors of the ship were Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Paula Neira, a Navy veteran and the clinical program director at the Center for Transgender Health at Johns Hopkins University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neira christened the ship by breaking a bottle of champagne on the hull, which is a Navy tradition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All six new ships are part of a program named after the late civil rights leader and former Georgia Rep. John Lewis. The five other ships in the fleet are also named for leaders who championed civil rights: former Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, Robert F. Kennedy, Lucy Stone, Sojourner Truth and Lewis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dufty, who attended the christening ceremony, said Milk was a deeply humorous man who would've appreciated the occasion for a particular reason: Naval ships are often referred to as \"she\" and \"her,\" so when the event's military speakers kept referring to the vessel named for Milk as \"Milk, she\" and \"Milk, her,\" Dufty said, \"I felt like I was in a gay bar and it was only nine in the morning.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Milk, the former San Francisco supervisor, served in the Navy during the Korean War but was discharged after being questioned about his sexual orientation.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1636670103,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":921},"headData":{"title":"The U.S. Navy Has Christened a Ship Named After Slain Gay Rights Leader Harvey Milk | KQED","description":"Milk, the former San Francisco supervisor, served in the Navy during the Korean War but was discharged after being questioned about his sexual orientation.","ogTitle":"The U.S. Navy Has Christened a Ship Named After Slain Gay Rights Leader Harvey Milk","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"The U.S. Navy Has Christened a Ship Named After Slain Gay Rights Leader Harvey Milk","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"The U.S. Navy Has Christened a Ship Named After Slain Gay Rights Leader Harvey Milk","datePublished":"2021-11-08T03:09:50.000Z","dateModified":"2021-11-11T22:35:03.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11895494 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11895494","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/11/07/the-u-s-navy-has-christened-a-ship-named-after-slain-gay-rights-leader-harvey-milk/","disqusTitle":"The U.S. Navy Has Christened a Ship Named After Slain Gay Rights Leader Harvey Milk","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"http://www.npr.org","nprByline":"Deepa Shivaram","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11895494/the-u-s-navy-has-christened-a-ship-named-after-slain-gay-rights-leader-harvey-milk","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The U.S. Navy has \u003ca href=\"https://fb.watch/97Bg9Y1dpH/\">launched and christened a ship named for the slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk\u003c/a>, who served in the Navy during the Korean War but was discharged after being questioned about his sexual orientation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 742-foot-long ship that launched from San Diego on Saturday is the second of six new vessels in the Navy's fleet oiler program, which will help replenish fuel for other Navy ships that are already out at sea. The Navy plans to eventually have 20 ships in the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naming the ship after an icon of the LGBTQ+ rights movement represents a symbolic milestone for the military following a long history in which queer service members were unable to serve openly. Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro said it helps right the wrongs of the past and shows a commitment to current and future LGBTQ+ service members. It's estimated that \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/lgbtq-veterans-discharged-dishonorably-sexual-orientation-full-benefits/story?id=80129318\">100,000 veterans have been discharged from military service because of their sexual orientation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Leaders like Harvey Milk taught us that diversity of backgrounds and experiences help contribute to the strength and resolve of our nation. There is no doubt that \u003ca href=\"https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/Press-Releases/display-pressreleases/Article/2835280/navy-to-christen-future-usns-harvey-milk/\">the future sailors aboard this ship will be inspired by Milk's life and legacy\u003c/a>,\" Del Toro said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stuart Milk, Milk's nephew and the co-founder of the Harvey Milk Foundation, spoke at the event and said one of his uncle's dreams was \"for service members to serve with authenticity and not be forced to hide who they were and who they love.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895495\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11895495\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1236396010-1.jpg\" alt=\"Three men stand together outside at an event with white chairs in the background. From left to right, a man in a bow tie and suit, another man in a navy hat and glasses holding a photo of Harvey Milk in naval uniform, and right, a smiling man in a suit with a goatee.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1236396010-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1236396010-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1236396010-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1236396010-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1236396010-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, David Campos, vice chair of the California Democratic Party; Nicole Murray-Ramirez, an LGBTQ+ activist, holding a photo of Harvey Milk; and Bevan Dufty, director of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District pose for a photo before the launching of the USNS Harvey Milk in San Diego on Nov. 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Ariana Drehsler/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://milkfoundation.org/about/harvey-milk-biography/\">Harvey Milk served in the Navy from 1951 to 1955\u003c/a>, including during the Korean War. His nephew said the Navy provided the Milk family with the documents outlining his discharge and it was \"less than honorable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milk says the Navy approached him about reversing his uncle's dishonorable discharge posthumously, but that he decided against it as a reminder that not everyone was treated with honor.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11706248/40-years-after-assassinations-assessing-the-legacies-of-harvey-milk-and-george-moscone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">40 Years After Assassinations, Assessing the Legacies of Harvey Milk and George Moscone\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11706248/40-years-after-assassinations-assessing-the-legacies-of-harvey-milk-and-george-moscone\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11708059\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1-800x522.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1-1020x665.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1-1200x783.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 27, 1978, San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone were gunned down in City Hall by former Supervisor Dan White. Take a look back at a San Francisco that was at a crossroads and the day that changed the city forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"We have to teach our history to prevent ourselves from going backwards,\" Stuart Milk said Saturday. \"This navy ship sends an important message to the world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1977, after his Navy career, Milk became the first openly gay elected official in California when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. But he was assassinated just one year later by a former city supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Campos, who also served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, and who is now a candidate for the state Assembly, told KQED the naming is \"historic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The navy kicked Harvey Milk out with a dishonorable discharge for being gay, and it now is naming a ship after him. It shows how far we in the LGBTQ community have come,\" Campos said. \"This ship will be an ambassador for LGBTQ inclusion and dignity as it travels the world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another politician, Bevan Dufty, an out gay man who serves on the Bay Area Rapid Transit board of directors, said the ship's christening was a testament to Milk's legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What was monumental about the christening is how many straight white men, many of whom in the military, stood up and spoke eloquently and powerfully about who Harvey was, the fight he gave his life for, and the importance of authenticity and coming out, and being inclusive,\" Dufty said. \"You have to shake your head a little bit and go wow, this is amazing. It's one thing to stand at the Board of Supervisors and extoll the virtues of Harvey.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Dufty said, \"to have a naval ship named in his honor is huge. It's not quite as big as the ship, but it's huge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two sponsors of the ship were Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Paula Neira, a Navy veteran and the clinical program director at the Center for Transgender Health at Johns Hopkins University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neira christened the ship by breaking a bottle of champagne on the hull, which is a Navy tradition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All six new ships are part of a program named after the late civil rights leader and former Georgia Rep. John Lewis. The five other ships in the fleet are also named for leaders who championed civil rights: former Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, Robert F. Kennedy, Lucy Stone, Sojourner Truth and Lewis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dufty, who attended the christening ceremony, said Milk was a deeply humorous man who would've appreciated the occasion for a particular reason: Naval ships are often referred to as \"she\" and \"her,\" so when the event's military speakers kept referring to the vessel named for Milk as \"Milk, she\" and \"Milk, her,\" Dufty said, \"I felt like I was in a gay bar and it was only nine in the morning.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11895494/the-u-s-navy-has-christened-a-ship-named-after-slain-gay-rights-leader-harvey-milk","authors":["byline_news_11895494"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_800","news_4367","news_1682","news_3041"],"featImg":"news_11895496","label":"source_news_11895494"},"news_11000000":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11000000","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11000000","score":null,"sort":[1466796400000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"contractor-pleads-guilty-to-bribery-in-one-of-navys-worst-corruption-cases","title":"Contractor Pleads Guilty to Bribery in One of Navy's Worst Corruption Cases","publishDate":1466796400,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>SAN DIEGO — A retired government contracting supervisor pleaded guilty to bribery Thursday, admitting he accepted more than $300,000 from a Malaysian businessman nicknamed \"Fat Leonard,\" whom prosecutors say bilked the armed forces out of more than $34 million in one of the Navy's worst corruption cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Simpkins, 62, who worked for the Department of Defense and the Department of Justice, pleaded guilty to one count of bribery and one count of conspiracy to commit bribery in federal court in San Diego. He is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 9. The bribery charge carries a maximum sentence of up to 15 years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simpkins, of Haymarket, Virginia, admitted to accepting the money, travel and the services of prostitutes in exchange for helping Singapore-based businessman Leonard Francis and his company, Glenn Defense Marine Asia, land multimillion-dollar contracts servicing Navy ships in Asia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors say Simpkins worked to suspend at least one of Francis' competitors, prevented staff from reviewing the company's invoices, and overruled a lieutenant who recommended against extending one of the company's contracts because of high prices. Simpkins has agreed to pay back the Navy $450,000, according to his plea agreement. His lawyer, John Lemon, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simpkins is among 14 people charged so far in the scandal centered on the gregarious Francis, nicknamed \"Fat Leonard\" because of his large girth. All but three have pleaded guilty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Known for lavish dinners and parties attended by U.S. Navy officers for decades, Francis pleaded guilty to bribery charges last year and is awaiting sentencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators say Francis' dealings with Simpkins started as early as 2005 when Simpkins served as a supervisory contract official in Singapore. At the time the Navy was looking at awarding long, potentially extendable contracts for providing food and supplies to ships off Thailand and the Philippines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simpkins helped Francis land one contract in Thailand worth more than $7 million, according to the prosecution. The two met at a hotel in Singapore on multiple occasions to discuss the scheme, according to court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simpkins had Francis wire the money to an account in Japan belonging to Simpkins' wife, who is Japanese, to hide the bribes, according to federal investigators. Simpkins also used fictitious email accounts, including one in the name of his mistress, and would cover up the bribes by calling them real estate investments when writing to Francis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January 2007, Simpkins issued orders for officials in Hong Kong to stop using meters to measure the flows of liquid waste removed from Navy ships, which would have provided proof of Francis' company overcharging for its services, according to court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May 2007, Simpkins wrote to Francis in an email that he wanted to accept a job at the U.S. Department of Justice but that he would continue to be a \"friend\" and of use to him since Pentagon lawyers worked there, according to court documents. Simpkins later returned to working for the Department of Defense in its small-business programs office. Investigators said the two continued their mutually beneficial relationship through September 2012.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A government contractor pleaded guilty to bribery Thursday, admitting he accepted more than $300,000 from Malaysian businessman 'Fat Leonard.'","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1466804088,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":526},"headData":{"title":"Contractor Pleads Guilty to Bribery in One of Navy's Worst Corruption Cases | KQED","description":"A government contractor pleaded guilty to bribery Thursday, admitting he accepted more than $300,000 from Malaysian businessman 'Fat Leonard.'","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Contractor Pleads Guilty to Bribery in One of Navy's Worst Corruption Cases","datePublished":"2016-06-24T19:26:40.000Z","dateModified":"2016-06-24T21:34:48.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11000000 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11000000","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/24/contractor-pleads-guilty-to-bribery-in-one-of-navys-worst-corruption-cases/","disqusTitle":"Contractor Pleads Guilty to Bribery in One of Navy's Worst Corruption Cases","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>Julie Watson \u003cbr>Associated Press \u003c/strong>","path":"/news/11000000/contractor-pleads-guilty-to-bribery-in-one-of-navys-worst-corruption-cases","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>SAN DIEGO — A retired government contracting supervisor pleaded guilty to bribery Thursday, admitting he accepted more than $300,000 from a Malaysian businessman nicknamed \"Fat Leonard,\" whom prosecutors say bilked the armed forces out of more than $34 million in one of the Navy's worst corruption cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Simpkins, 62, who worked for the Department of Defense and the Department of Justice, pleaded guilty to one count of bribery and one count of conspiracy to commit bribery in federal court in San Diego. He is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 9. The bribery charge carries a maximum sentence of up to 15 years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simpkins, of Haymarket, Virginia, admitted to accepting the money, travel and the services of prostitutes in exchange for helping Singapore-based businessman Leonard Francis and his company, Glenn Defense Marine Asia, land multimillion-dollar contracts servicing Navy ships in Asia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors say Simpkins worked to suspend at least one of Francis' competitors, prevented staff from reviewing the company's invoices, and overruled a lieutenant who recommended against extending one of the company's contracts because of high prices. Simpkins has agreed to pay back the Navy $450,000, according to his plea agreement. His lawyer, John Lemon, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simpkins is among 14 people charged so far in the scandal centered on the gregarious Francis, nicknamed \"Fat Leonard\" because of his large girth. All but three have pleaded guilty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Known for lavish dinners and parties attended by U.S. Navy officers for decades, Francis pleaded guilty to bribery charges last year and is awaiting sentencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators say Francis' dealings with Simpkins started as early as 2005 when Simpkins served as a supervisory contract official in Singapore. At the time the Navy was looking at awarding long, potentially extendable contracts for providing food and supplies to ships off Thailand and the Philippines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simpkins helped Francis land one contract in Thailand worth more than $7 million, according to the prosecution. The two met at a hotel in Singapore on multiple occasions to discuss the scheme, according to court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simpkins had Francis wire the money to an account in Japan belonging to Simpkins' wife, who is Japanese, to hide the bribes, according to federal investigators. Simpkins also used fictitious email accounts, including one in the name of his mistress, and would cover up the bribes by calling them real estate investments when writing to Francis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January 2007, Simpkins issued orders for officials in Hong Kong to stop using meters to measure the flows of liquid waste removed from Navy ships, which would have provided proof of Francis' company overcharging for its services, according to court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May 2007, Simpkins wrote to Francis in an email that he wanted to accept a job at the U.S. Department of Justice but that he would continue to be a \"friend\" and of use to him since Pentagon lawyers worked there, according to court documents. Simpkins later returned to working for the Department of Defense in its small-business programs office. Investigators said the two continued their mutually beneficial relationship through September 2012.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11000000/contractor-pleads-guilty-to-bribery-in-one-of-navys-worst-corruption-cases","authors":["byline_news_11000000"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_3041","news_4486","news_17286"],"featImg":"news_11000003","label":"news_72"},"news_142082":{"type":"posts","id":"news_142082","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"142082","score":null,"sort":[1405782059000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-a-deadly-explosion-70-years-ago-led-to-integrating-the-navy","title":"How a Deadly Explosion 70 Years Ago Led to Integrating the Navy","publishDate":1405782059,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_142097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/Port-Chicago.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-142097\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/Port-Chicago.jpg\" alt=\"The Port Chicago explosion on July 17, 1944, killed 320 people and completely destroyed two war ships. (National Park Service)\" width=\"800\" height=\"639\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Port Chicago explosion on July 17, 1944, killed 320 people and completely destroyed two war ships. (National Park Service)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This week, relatives, historians and the general public are remembering one of the deadliest industrial disasters in United States history: a massive explosion in the Bay Area that took hundreds of lives during World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/poch/index.htm\">Port Chicago\u003c/a> was a Navy facility near Concord where sailors loaded munitions onto ships headed for the Pacific. On the night of July 17, 1944, the men were loading up the \u003cem>SS Quinault Victory\u003c/em> and the\u003cem> SS E.A. Bryan\u003c/em> when the mishandling of weapons led to a deadly explosion that killed 320 people. Of the men who died, 202 were African-Americans working in a segregated Navy. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq80-1.htm\">Navy website describes what happened\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">At 10:18 p.m., a hollow ring and the sound of splintering wood erupted from the pier, followed by an explosion that ripped apart the night sky. Witnesses said that a brilliant white flash shot into the air, accompanied by a loud, sharp report. A column of smoke billowed from the pier, and fire glowed orange and yellow. Flashing like fireworks, smaller explosions went off in the cloud as it rose. Within six seconds, a deeper explosion erupted as the contents of the \u003c/span>\u003ci style=\"color: #000000\">E.A. Bryan\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\"> detonated in one massive explosion. The seismic shock wave was felt as far away as Boulder City, Nevada. The \u003c/span>\u003ci style=\"color: #000000\">E.A. Bryan\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\"> and the structures around the pier were completely disintegrated. A pillar of fire and smoke stretched over two miles into the sky above Port Chicago. The largest remaining pieces of the 7,200-ton ship were the size of a suitcase. A plane flying at 9,000 feet reported seeing chunks of white hot metal \"as big as a house\" flying past. The shattered \u003c/span>\u003ci style=\"color: #000000\">Quinault Victory\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\"> was spun into the air. Witnesses reported seeing a 200-foot column on which rode the bow of the ship, its mast still attached. Its remains crashed back into the bay 500 feet away.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Pittsburg resident Frank DeRosa was 17 at the time. He was living several miles away and was carrying his baby sister to bed when he felt the blast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All of a sudden it was like a wind, like a tornado,\" he said. The large window behind him shattered, hurling shards of glass at his back, and cutting through his thick flannel pajamas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I got cut a few times, and mostly I was bruised,\" he said. \"The little kid was in my chest and I was hunched over, so [she] never got one little scratch.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, DeRosa climbed a nearby hilltop overlooking Port Chicago. The two warships that were being loaded with weapons were gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_142134\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/Port-Chicago-5.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-142134\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/Port-Chicago-5-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"Sailors loading munitions at Port Chicago. (National Park Service)\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sailors loading munitions at Port Chicago. (National Park Service)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It's pretty hard to comprehend, but two ships disappeared,\" he said. \"There were pieces that flew past Pittsburg.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sue Fritzke, of the Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial, says the tragic event was likely the result of military officials (who were white) betting on which of their teams (who were mostly African-American) could load munitions into the ships faster. Fritzke says the teams had received little information about the munitions they were handling. They had not been informed that the munitions were live nor did they know what the proper safety protocols were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Port Chicago 50\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 320 men who died in the explosion, 202 were African-Americans working in a segregated Navy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The surviving sailors had to recover the bodies of their fellow men from the scene, said Steve Sheinkin, author of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://stevesheinkin.com/books/the-port-chicago-50/\">The Port Chicago 50\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, an historical book for young adults. Just three weeks later, the men were marched to the nearby base at Mare Island, he said. The men weren’t sure what their new assignment would be until they were marched to the pier. They were going to be loading dangerous munitions again. “That’s when this mutiny happened,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 250 African-American sailors refused to return to work until they received proper training and clear instructions about how to load munitions safely. A Navy admiral threatened to shoot them if they didn't return to work. In spite of the threat of execution, a group of men, who came to be known as the Port Chicago 50, still refused to return to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the Port Chicago 50 were just teenagers, a lot of them just out of high school, Sheinkin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These guys stood up for what they thought was an injustice,\" Sheinkin said. \"They said, 'We're not going back to the same conditions.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navy charged the Port Chicago 50 with conspiring to mutiny and sentenced them to 15 years in prison. After they'd served two years, the war ended, and they were all granted clemency. Only one has received a presidential pardon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Military Civil Rights\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controversies surrounding Port Chicago were part of the beginning of the civil rights movement, Sheinkin said, comparing the Port Chicago 50's actions to Rosa Parks' decision not to give up her seat on a segregated bus. Their refusal to abide by the status quo caught the attention of national leaders and \"led directly to the Navy deciding to make changes,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurgood Marshall -- then a lead attorney for the NAACP -- heard about the Port Chicago 50 and asked Navy Secretary James Forrestal if he could sit in on their military trial. Watching the proceedings, Sheinkin said, Marshall came to believe the military judges had already made up their minds about the men. He filed an appeal and kept pressuring the Navy to reverse its decision. Eleanor Roosevelt also heard of the trial, Sheinkin said, and told Forrestal to make sure the men were treated fairly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feeling the pressure from national leaders in the wake of the disaster, Forrestal thought he had an opportunity to make a change, Sheinkin said. “I think he was a fair-minded person who didn’t support segregation to begin with.” Forrestal began by integrating a few Navy ships, Sheinkin said, and found that it worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1946, the Navy became the first military branch to be completely integrated, Sheinkin said. In 1948, President Harry Truman signed an executive order integrating all branches of the armed forces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Truman got a lot of credit in the history books for the executive order, but that was two years later,\" said Sheinkin. \"If these guys hadn't taken this huge risk, then it never would have gotten so much attention.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>On Saturday, July 19, from 9 a.m. to noon, a public \u003ca href=\"http://portchicagomemorial.org/category/events/\">commemoration, film screening and tour\u003c/a> will take place in Richmond at the SS Red Oak Victory, a ship of the same class as the two that were destroyed at Port Chicago.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The explosion at Port Chicago killed hundreds, and highlighted America's racial inequities.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1405731079,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":1183},"headData":{"title":"How a Deadly Explosion 70 Years Ago Led to Integrating the Navy | KQED","description":"The explosion at Port Chicago killed hundreds, and highlighted America's racial inequities.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"How a Deadly Explosion 70 Years Ago Led to Integrating the Navy","datePublished":"2014-07-19T15:00:59.000Z","dateModified":"2014-07-19T00:51:19.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"142082 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=142082","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/07/19/how-a-deadly-explosion-70-years-ago-led-to-integrating-the-navy/","disqusTitle":"How a Deadly Explosion 70 Years Ago Led to Integrating the Navy","customPermalink":"2014/07/19/port-chicago-anniversary/","path":"/news/142082/how-a-deadly-explosion-70-years-ago-led-to-integrating-the-navy","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_142097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/Port-Chicago.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-142097\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/Port-Chicago.jpg\" alt=\"The Port Chicago explosion on July 17, 1944, killed 320 people and completely destroyed two war ships. (National Park Service)\" width=\"800\" height=\"639\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Port Chicago explosion on July 17, 1944, killed 320 people and completely destroyed two war ships. (National Park Service)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This week, relatives, historians and the general public are remembering one of the deadliest industrial disasters in United States history: a massive explosion in the Bay Area that took hundreds of lives during World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/poch/index.htm\">Port Chicago\u003c/a> was a Navy facility near Concord where sailors loaded munitions onto ships headed for the Pacific. On the night of July 17, 1944, the men were loading up the \u003cem>SS Quinault Victory\u003c/em> and the\u003cem> SS E.A. Bryan\u003c/em> when the mishandling of weapons led to a deadly explosion that killed 320 people. Of the men who died, 202 were African-Americans working in a segregated Navy. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq80-1.htm\">Navy website describes what happened\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">At 10:18 p.m., a hollow ring and the sound of splintering wood erupted from the pier, followed by an explosion that ripped apart the night sky. Witnesses said that a brilliant white flash shot into the air, accompanied by a loud, sharp report. A column of smoke billowed from the pier, and fire glowed orange and yellow. Flashing like fireworks, smaller explosions went off in the cloud as it rose. Within six seconds, a deeper explosion erupted as the contents of the \u003c/span>\u003ci style=\"color: #000000\">E.A. Bryan\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\"> detonated in one massive explosion. The seismic shock wave was felt as far away as Boulder City, Nevada. The \u003c/span>\u003ci style=\"color: #000000\">E.A. Bryan\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\"> and the structures around the pier were completely disintegrated. A pillar of fire and smoke stretched over two miles into the sky above Port Chicago. The largest remaining pieces of the 7,200-ton ship were the size of a suitcase. A plane flying at 9,000 feet reported seeing chunks of white hot metal \"as big as a house\" flying past. The shattered \u003c/span>\u003ci style=\"color: #000000\">Quinault Victory\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\"> was spun into the air. Witnesses reported seeing a 200-foot column on which rode the bow of the ship, its mast still attached. Its remains crashed back into the bay 500 feet away.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Pittsburg resident Frank DeRosa was 17 at the time. He was living several miles away and was carrying his baby sister to bed when he felt the blast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All of a sudden it was like a wind, like a tornado,\" he said. The large window behind him shattered, hurling shards of glass at his back, and cutting through his thick flannel pajamas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I got cut a few times, and mostly I was bruised,\" he said. \"The little kid was in my chest and I was hunched over, so [she] never got one little scratch.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, DeRosa climbed a nearby hilltop overlooking Port Chicago. The two warships that were being loaded with weapons were gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_142134\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/Port-Chicago-5.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-142134\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/Port-Chicago-5-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"Sailors loading munitions at Port Chicago. (National Park Service)\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sailors loading munitions at Port Chicago. (National Park Service)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It's pretty hard to comprehend, but two ships disappeared,\" he said. \"There were pieces that flew past Pittsburg.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sue Fritzke, of the Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial, says the tragic event was likely the result of military officials (who were white) betting on which of their teams (who were mostly African-American) could load munitions into the ships faster. Fritzke says the teams had received little information about the munitions they were handling. They had not been informed that the munitions were live nor did they know what the proper safety protocols were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Port Chicago 50\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 320 men who died in the explosion, 202 were African-Americans working in a segregated Navy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The surviving sailors had to recover the bodies of their fellow men from the scene, said Steve Sheinkin, author of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://stevesheinkin.com/books/the-port-chicago-50/\">The Port Chicago 50\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, an historical book for young adults. Just three weeks later, the men were marched to the nearby base at Mare Island, he said. The men weren’t sure what their new assignment would be until they were marched to the pier. They were going to be loading dangerous munitions again. “That’s when this mutiny happened,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 250 African-American sailors refused to return to work until they received proper training and clear instructions about how to load munitions safely. A Navy admiral threatened to shoot them if they didn't return to work. In spite of the threat of execution, a group of men, who came to be known as the Port Chicago 50, still refused to return to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the Port Chicago 50 were just teenagers, a lot of them just out of high school, Sheinkin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These guys stood up for what they thought was an injustice,\" Sheinkin said. \"They said, 'We're not going back to the same conditions.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navy charged the Port Chicago 50 with conspiring to mutiny and sentenced them to 15 years in prison. After they'd served two years, the war ended, and they were all granted clemency. Only one has received a presidential pardon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Military Civil Rights\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controversies surrounding Port Chicago were part of the beginning of the civil rights movement, Sheinkin said, comparing the Port Chicago 50's actions to Rosa Parks' decision not to give up her seat on a segregated bus. Their refusal to abide by the status quo caught the attention of national leaders and \"led directly to the Navy deciding to make changes,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurgood Marshall -- then a lead attorney for the NAACP -- heard about the Port Chicago 50 and asked Navy Secretary James Forrestal if he could sit in on their military trial. Watching the proceedings, Sheinkin said, Marshall came to believe the military judges had already made up their minds about the men. He filed an appeal and kept pressuring the Navy to reverse its decision. Eleanor Roosevelt also heard of the trial, Sheinkin said, and told Forrestal to make sure the men were treated fairly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feeling the pressure from national leaders in the wake of the disaster, Forrestal thought he had an opportunity to make a change, Sheinkin said. “I think he was a fair-minded person who didn’t support segregation to begin with.” Forrestal began by integrating a few Navy ships, Sheinkin said, and found that it worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1946, the Navy became the first military branch to be completely integrated, Sheinkin said. In 1948, President Harry Truman signed an executive order integrating all branches of the armed forces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Truman got a lot of credit in the history books for the executive order, but that was two years later,\" said Sheinkin. \"If these guys hadn't taken this huge risk, then it never would have gotten so much attention.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>On Saturday, July 19, from 9 a.m. to noon, a public \u003ca href=\"http://portchicagomemorial.org/category/events/\">commemoration, film screening and tour\u003c/a> will take place in Richmond at the SS Red Oak Victory, a ship of the same class as the two that were destroyed at Port Chicago.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/142082/how-a-deadly-explosion-70-years-ago-led-to-integrating-the-navy","authors":["1565"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_5241","news_3631","news_3041","news_6624","news_236"],"featImg":"news_142134","label":"news_6944"},"news_117779":{"type":"posts","id":"news_117779","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"117779","score":null,"sort":[1384216541000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"at-100-a-veteran-of-pearl-harbor-looks-back","title":"At 100, a Veteran of Pearl Harbor Looks Back ","publishDate":1384216541,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/11/ussphoenix/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-117811\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-117811\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/ussphoenix-e1384215074918.jpg\" alt=\"The USS Phoenix steams past battleships burning after attack on Pearl Harbor. (U.S. Naval Historical Center)\" width=\"640\" height=\"374\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The USS Phoenix steams past battleships burning after the attack on Pearl Harbor. (\u003ca href=\"http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-p/cl46.htm\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Naval Historical Center\u003c/a>)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Frank Hanley was in his early 20s when he enlisted in the Navy in 1937. He figured he could get trained as an electrician. Instead, he was assigned to be a gunner's mate. That's the job he had aboard the cruiser USS Phoenix on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanley is long since retired and lives in Cupertino. He's going to turn 100 years next Sunday, and Congressman Mike Honda and Veterans Administration officials are planning to recognize his long service — he wound up staying in the Navy for 22 years — and congratulate him on his milestone birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanley doesn't get out a lot anymore, from what we're told, but there's nothing wrong with his memory. Here's what he recalls about one of the darkest moments in U.S. history and what came after:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Phoenix was \u003ca href=\"http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h83000/h83109.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">moored offshore\u003c/a> the morning of Dec. 7, across from Ford Island, where the USS Arizona, USS Oklahoma and other battleships were docked. As gunner's mate, Hanley was in charge of the Phoenix's eight, 5-inch anti-aircraft guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117815\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/11/photo-1-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-117815\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-117815\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/photo-1-200x300.png\" alt=\"Frank Hanley early in his U.S. Navy service.\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Hanley early in his U.S. Navy service.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was a Sunday, and after breakfast, Hanley took a little walk around the main deck. \"Such a nice morning,\" he recalls. He was planning to go to church services on the battleship California. He went below to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As I reached my locker, they passed the word 'set condition affirm' — close all water-tight doors. A drill, on Sunday? Never heard of it?!\" He ran for his battle station, called \"sky forward,\" above the ship's bridge. As he came up on the main deck, he saw the cooks from the galley cutting the awnings down so that the anti-aircraft guns could fire freely. From sky forward, he could see smoke coming from across Ford Island. There was an ammunition depot there. He thought it must have caught fire. Then a plane passed over, and he could see the Rising Sun insignia on the wingtips, and he knew they were under attack by Japanese planes. He says he kept thinking, “How’d they get here?” over and over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Japanese pilots seemed to stay away from the Phoenix, which had \u003ca href=\"http://www.history.navy.mil/docs/wwii/pearl/ph69.htm\" target=\"_blank\">opened fire\u003c/a> shortly after the first attacking planes were spotted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They were going after the battleships,\" Hanley says. \"The Arizona was at one end of battleship row, the California was at the other end. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/ph-okm.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma\u003c/a> was behind the Arizona, and it rolled over\" after being torpedoed repeatedly by Japanese planes. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/ph-az.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona\u003c/a> was struck by several bombs and blew up. When \u003ca href=\"http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/teach/pearl/aftermath/facts.htm\" target=\"_blank\">the attack\u003c/a> was over, more than 2,300 sailors, soldiers and Marines had been killed — more than 1,600 on the Arizona and Oklahoma. The Phoenix was untouched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They wanted to get the ship out of the harbor,\" Hanley remembers. \"They made an attempt to go around Ford Island in the center (channel). It was blocked by an old battleship, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-u/bb31-y.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Utah\u003c/a>. It had been hit, and sunk in the channel. They tried the main channel, which was blocked by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/ph-nv.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Nevada\u003c/a>. The Nevada had been hit and was taking on too much water. They ran themselves on the side of the channel, aground.\" Eventually, the Phoenix got out of the harbor, accompanied by several destroyers. They were assigned to a task force to go out and find the Japanese fleet that had attacked Pearl Harbor, but found nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, the Phoenix helped convoy the wounded and military dependents back to San Francisco, then brought medical supplies back to Hawaii. In early 1942, the ship was sent to the Australian port of Melbourne. \"They were happy to see the Americans down there because the Japanese were bombing towns in northern Australia. All the parks had trenches dug in them,\" Hanley says, in case of an invasion. The city was blacked out at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">A plane passed over with the Rising Sun insignia on the wing-tips. Hanley kept thinking, \"How did they get here?\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In 1943, Hanley was transferred from the Phoenix (after the war, the United States sold the ship to Argentina, which rechristened it the General Belgrano; a British submarine \u003ca href=\"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/argentina/9233976/Thirty-years-on-Argentine-survivors-of-the-Belgrano-sinking-recall-the-moment-Falklands-war-erupted-around-them.html\" target=\"_blank\">sank the ship\u003c/a> during the 1982 Falklands War, killing more than 300 Argentine sailors). Hanley's next assignment was a new cruiser, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-r/cl96.htm\" target=\"_blank\">USS Reno\u003c/a>. He says he saw more action on his new ship with a captain who was anxious to prove himself and who seemed to volunteer for any dangerous mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117816\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/11/photo-15/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-117816\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-117816\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/photo-200x300.png\" alt=\"Frank Hanley, a veteran of the Navy who fought at Pearl Harbor, on his 99th birthday.\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Hanley, a veteran of the Navy who fought at Pearl Harbor, on his 99th birthday.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Reno's main job was to protect aircraft carriers as U.S. forces moved into the eastern Pacific in 1944. In late October, operating east of the Philippines, the Reno was near the carrier \u003ca href=\"http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/leyteglf/cvl23-l.htm\" target=\"_blank\">USS Princeton\u003c/a> when a single enemy bomb triggered a fire that swept through the ship. The Reno and several other ships, including the cruiser \u003ca href=\"http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/b6/birmingham-ii.htm\" target=\"_blank\">USS Birmingham\u003c/a>, were ordered to help fight the fire aboard the larger ship. A short time later, the Reno was ordered to pull away to get ready to fight incoming enemy planes. That done, they started back to aid the Princeton when a tremendous explosion blew off the Princeton's stern. The Birmingham, along the carrier's port side, suffered heavy casualties and damage. With the Princeton beyond saving, the Reno was ordered to sink it. Hanley remembers the job took four torpedoes and made a tremendous explosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Reno, too, eventually suffered heavy damage, and Hanley served out the war on yet another ship. He served until 1959, including a stint at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. He later went to work for the U.S. Postal service, from which he retired. Today, he lives in an independent retirement residence in Cupertino. He still fixes his own lunch every day. He says his eyesight isn't so good — in fact, he's legally blind. His main form of recreation, he says, is listening to audio books, especially volumes of biography and history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We doubt that any of the stories he comes across are any more interesting than those he tells himself about those long-ago days in the service.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Frank Hanley enlisted with hopes of becoming an electrician. The Navy, and history, had other plans. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1384298360,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":1068},"headData":{"title":"At 100, a Veteran of Pearl Harbor Looks Back | KQED","description":"Frank Hanley enlisted with hopes of becoming an electrician. The Navy, and history, had other plans. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"At 100, a Veteran of Pearl Harbor Looks Back ","datePublished":"2013-11-12T00:35:41.000Z","dateModified":"2013-11-12T23:19:20.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"117779 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=117779","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/11/at-100-a-veteran-of-pearl-harbor-looks-back/","disqusTitle":"At 100, a Veteran of Pearl Harbor Looks Back ","customPermalink":"2013/11/11/frank-hanley-pearl-harbor-veteran-remembers-navy-service/","path":"/news/117779/at-100-a-veteran-of-pearl-harbor-looks-back","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/11/ussphoenix/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-117811\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-117811\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/ussphoenix-e1384215074918.jpg\" alt=\"The USS Phoenix steams past battleships burning after attack on Pearl Harbor. (U.S. Naval Historical Center)\" width=\"640\" height=\"374\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The USS Phoenix steams past battleships burning after the attack on Pearl Harbor. (\u003ca href=\"http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-p/cl46.htm\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Naval Historical Center\u003c/a>)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Frank Hanley was in his early 20s when he enlisted in the Navy in 1937. He figured he could get trained as an electrician. Instead, he was assigned to be a gunner's mate. That's the job he had aboard the cruiser USS Phoenix on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanley is long since retired and lives in Cupertino. He's going to turn 100 years next Sunday, and Congressman Mike Honda and Veterans Administration officials are planning to recognize his long service — he wound up staying in the Navy for 22 years — and congratulate him on his milestone birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanley doesn't get out a lot anymore, from what we're told, but there's nothing wrong with his memory. Here's what he recalls about one of the darkest moments in U.S. history and what came after:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Phoenix was \u003ca href=\"http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h83000/h83109.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">moored offshore\u003c/a> the morning of Dec. 7, across from Ford Island, where the USS Arizona, USS Oklahoma and other battleships were docked. As gunner's mate, Hanley was in charge of the Phoenix's eight, 5-inch anti-aircraft guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117815\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/11/photo-1-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-117815\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-117815\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/photo-1-200x300.png\" alt=\"Frank Hanley early in his U.S. Navy service.\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Hanley early in his U.S. Navy service.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was a Sunday, and after breakfast, Hanley took a little walk around the main deck. \"Such a nice morning,\" he recalls. He was planning to go to church services on the battleship California. He went below to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As I reached my locker, they passed the word 'set condition affirm' — close all water-tight doors. A drill, on Sunday? Never heard of it?!\" He ran for his battle station, called \"sky forward,\" above the ship's bridge. As he came up on the main deck, he saw the cooks from the galley cutting the awnings down so that the anti-aircraft guns could fire freely. From sky forward, he could see smoke coming from across Ford Island. There was an ammunition depot there. He thought it must have caught fire. Then a plane passed over, and he could see the Rising Sun insignia on the wingtips, and he knew they were under attack by Japanese planes. He says he kept thinking, “How’d they get here?” over and over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Japanese pilots seemed to stay away from the Phoenix, which had \u003ca href=\"http://www.history.navy.mil/docs/wwii/pearl/ph69.htm\" target=\"_blank\">opened fire\u003c/a> shortly after the first attacking planes were spotted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They were going after the battleships,\" Hanley says. \"The Arizona was at one end of battleship row, the California was at the other end. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/ph-okm.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma\u003c/a> was behind the Arizona, and it rolled over\" after being torpedoed repeatedly by Japanese planes. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/ph-az.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona\u003c/a> was struck by several bombs and blew up. When \u003ca href=\"http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/teach/pearl/aftermath/facts.htm\" target=\"_blank\">the attack\u003c/a> was over, more than 2,300 sailors, soldiers and Marines had been killed — more than 1,600 on the Arizona and Oklahoma. The Phoenix was untouched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They wanted to get the ship out of the harbor,\" Hanley remembers. \"They made an attempt to go around Ford Island in the center (channel). It was blocked by an old battleship, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-u/bb31-y.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Utah\u003c/a>. It had been hit, and sunk in the channel. They tried the main channel, which was blocked by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/ph-nv.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Nevada\u003c/a>. The Nevada had been hit and was taking on too much water. They ran themselves on the side of the channel, aground.\" Eventually, the Phoenix got out of the harbor, accompanied by several destroyers. They were assigned to a task force to go out and find the Japanese fleet that had attacked Pearl Harbor, but found nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, the Phoenix helped convoy the wounded and military dependents back to San Francisco, then brought medical supplies back to Hawaii. In early 1942, the ship was sent to the Australian port of Melbourne. \"They were happy to see the Americans down there because the Japanese were bombing towns in northern Australia. All the parks had trenches dug in them,\" Hanley says, in case of an invasion. The city was blacked out at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">A plane passed over with the Rising Sun insignia on the wing-tips. Hanley kept thinking, \"How did they get here?\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In 1943, Hanley was transferred from the Phoenix (after the war, the United States sold the ship to Argentina, which rechristened it the General Belgrano; a British submarine \u003ca href=\"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/argentina/9233976/Thirty-years-on-Argentine-survivors-of-the-Belgrano-sinking-recall-the-moment-Falklands-war-erupted-around-them.html\" target=\"_blank\">sank the ship\u003c/a> during the 1982 Falklands War, killing more than 300 Argentine sailors). Hanley's next assignment was a new cruiser, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-r/cl96.htm\" target=\"_blank\">USS Reno\u003c/a>. He says he saw more action on his new ship with a captain who was anxious to prove himself and who seemed to volunteer for any dangerous mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117816\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/11/photo-15/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-117816\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-117816\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/photo-200x300.png\" alt=\"Frank Hanley, a veteran of the Navy who fought at Pearl Harbor, on his 99th birthday.\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Hanley, a veteran of the Navy who fought at Pearl Harbor, on his 99th birthday.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Reno's main job was to protect aircraft carriers as U.S. forces moved into the eastern Pacific in 1944. In late October, operating east of the Philippines, the Reno was near the carrier \u003ca href=\"http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/leyteglf/cvl23-l.htm\" target=\"_blank\">USS Princeton\u003c/a> when a single enemy bomb triggered a fire that swept through the ship. The Reno and several other ships, including the cruiser \u003ca href=\"http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/b6/birmingham-ii.htm\" target=\"_blank\">USS Birmingham\u003c/a>, were ordered to help fight the fire aboard the larger ship. A short time later, the Reno was ordered to pull away to get ready to fight incoming enemy planes. That done, they started back to aid the Princeton when a tremendous explosion blew off the Princeton's stern. The Birmingham, along the carrier's port side, suffered heavy casualties and damage. With the Princeton beyond saving, the Reno was ordered to sink it. Hanley remembers the job took four torpedoes and made a tremendous explosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Reno, too, eventually suffered heavy damage, and Hanley served out the war on yet another ship. He served until 1959, including a stint at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. He later went to work for the U.S. Postal service, from which he retired. Today, he lives in an independent retirement residence in Cupertino. He still fixes his own lunch every day. He says his eyesight isn't so good — in fact, he's legally blind. His main form of recreation, he says, is listening to audio books, especially volumes of biography and history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We doubt that any of the stories he comes across are any more interesting than those he tells himself about those long-ago days in the service.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/117779/at-100-a-veteran-of-pearl-harbor-looks-back","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_6944"],"tags":["news_80","news_3041","news_5065","news_237"],"featImg":"news_117811","label":"news_6944"},"news_94001":{"type":"posts","id":"news_94001","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"94001","score":null,"sort":[1365750065000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"nuclear-byproduct-levels-on-treasure-island-higher-than-navy-disclosed","title":"Nuclear Byproduct Levels on Treasure Island Higher than Navy Disclosed","publishDate":1365750065,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>by Matt Smith and Katharine Mieszkowski, Center for Investigative Reporting \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Land slated for development on Treasure Island contains elevated concentrations of cesium-137, a byproduct of nuclear fission associated with an increased risk of cancer, according to an independent analysis commissioned by the Center for Investigative Reporting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.baycitizen.org/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-94067\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/baycitizenlogo3.jpg\" alt=\"baycitizenlogo3\" width=\"224\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>The findings, discovered through soil samples gathered by reporters and tested by two independent certified laboratories, appear to undermine some past statements by the U.S. Navy about the land’s historic uses and the present condition of the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Results show cesium-137 levels up to three times that previously acknowledged by the Navy and at least 60 percent higher than the Navy’s own thresholds for environmental safety.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The questions raised by your testing should be fully vetted by the Navy,” said Gary Butner, former chief of the radiologic health branch at the California Department of Public Health, who was a state watchdog for the Treasure Island cleanup until he retired in 2011. “I just don’t have a sense there’s a strong commitment to go and (clean) the site. They just don’t want to spend any money there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94071\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 298px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/12/nuclear-byproduct-levels-on-treasure-island-higher-than-navy-disclosed/treasureisland-0412/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-94071\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-94071\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/TreasureIsland-0412.jpg\" alt=\"Treasure Island radiation sign\" width=\"298\" height=\"198\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Treasure Island is the site of an ongoing radiation cleanup operation that some California health authorities have faulted for overlooking the possibility of contamination from nuclear fission byproducts, such as cesium-137.\u003cbr>(Kerri Connolly/Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Exposure to cesium-137 “can result in cancer risks much higher than typical environmental exposures,” according to the federal Environmental Protection Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concentrations discovered by \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/\">CIR\u003c/a> do not necessarily confirm a health hazard, according to Jan Beyea, a prominent nuclear physicist specializing in the health effects of low-level radiation. They are no greater than common contamination worldwide from 20th-century nuclear fallout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Beyea said, the unexpected finding should prompt a more thorough evaluation of the island for potentially hotter spots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that there is a level above standards is a clear mandate for further study and assessment of the extent of contamination and its origin,” Beyea wrote in an email, adding that more systematic testing is particularly important given that public play areas are planned nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Building a playfield is not an appropriate plan at this time,” he wrote, “given the tendency for little children to put things in their mouths.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94056\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 150px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/cir1a.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-94056\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/cir1a-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Reporter Katharine Mieszkowski carries buckets containing carefully separated soil samples from Treasure Island, which later were tested at two independent certified radiation labs.(Kerri Connolly/Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reporter Katharine Mieszkowski carries buckets containing carefully separated soil samples from Treasure Island, which later were tested at two independent certified radiation labs.\u003cbr>(Kerri Connolly/Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>CIR shared the test results with the Navy, City of San Francisco, and state Departments of Public Health and Toxic Substances Control, requesting interviews with experts involved in the Treasure Island cleanup. All four responded with statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navy said the test results did not warrant action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Such limited data taken out of context doesn’t provide much value in determining site conditions or making programmatic decisions,” wrote Keith Forman, the Navy’s Treasure Island cleanup coordinator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Tymoff, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee’s Treasure Island development director, said CIR’s findings provide no reason for the city to take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city has no basis to comment on the validity or accuracy of the tests,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Public Health said it “does not comment on research conducted by others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the Department of Toxic Substances Control, which oversees the Navy cleanup, said in a statement that it had to review the findings and would work with the Public Health Department “to determine what it means and where we go from here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butner and other state radiation specialists have for years complained in emails, reports and memos that the Navy has been reluctant to test for fission byproducts such as cesium-137 – despite a Cold War history suggesting the possibility of such contamination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the Navy has focused on radium-226, used for glow-in-the-dark ship deck markers and gauges commonly discarded at military bases during the mid-20th century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The distinction is significant: If Treasure Island were contaminated only with radium, that would be consistent with the former base’s public face as a way station and barracks for sailors on their way to the Pacific. Potential contamination by fission byproducts such as cesium-137, however, points to possible aftereffects of Treasure Island’s more guarded history: host to radioactive ships from Bikini Atoll atomic tests and a major education center training personnel for nuclear war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butner said the Navy’s didn’t look for all the waste that might have been left behind during the base’s Cold War years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of going out and surveying the ground for everything, they said, ‘OK, this is what we’re looking for, and we’re not looking for cesium, for thorium,” he said. “The federal government’s motivation is to keep moving forward and not ask many questions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cold War Legacy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CIR-commissioned findings bolster criticisms, contained in hundreds of pages of internal emails and memos from specialists at the state Public Health Department, that accuse the Navy of failing to adequately inspect Treasure Island for radioactive waste and of perhaps minimizing its Cold War legacy to more swiftly sell off the former base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94057\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 150px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/USS_Pandemonium_Photo.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-94057\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/USS_Pandemonium_Photo-150x150.png\" alt=\"Until the early 1990s, the U.S. Navy operated atomic warfare training academies on Treasure Island. Some radioactive materials were stored in and around a mocked-up nuclear war training ship, the USS Pandemonium.(U.S. Navy photo)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Until the early 1990s, the U.S. Navy operated atomic warfare training academies on Treasure Island. Some radioactive materials were stored in and around a mocked-up nuclear war training ship, the USS Pandemonium.\u003cbr>(U.S. Navy photo)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Navy repeatedly has rebuffed health officials’ demands that Treasure Island be thoroughly vetted for radioactive contamination – a multimillion-dollar job – before it is made available for a planned high-rise development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navy stands to receive more than $100 million from San Francisco for the base, provided the military performs a satisfactory cleanup of chemical and radioactive waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until the early 1990s, the Navy operated atomic warfare training academies on Treasure Island, using instruction materials and devices that included radioactive plutonium, cesium, tritium, cadmium, strontium, krypton and cobalt. These supplies were stored at various locations around the former base, including supply depots, classrooms and vaults, and in and around a mocked-up atomic warfare training ship – the USS Pandemonium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CIR’s samples were taken from under a palm tree 50 feet from a classroom building where cesium-137 was kept, according to military archives. A 1974 radiation safety audit identified cesium samples used and stored there with radioactivity several times the amount necessary to injure or kill someone who mishandled them. In 1993, shipping manifests from the same building showed even greater amounts of cesium-137 taken away from the same site that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minute amounts of cesium-137 can contaminate broad areas. When a Spanish steel mill in 1998 accidentally incinerated an amount less than that stored in the Treasure Island classroom building, the smoke plume deposited detectable radioactive material hundreds of miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concentrations found in the CIR-commissioned tests represented mere trillionths of the quantities once stored nearby. It’s exposure to low-level radioactive contamination, however, that researchers have linked to cancer risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Classroom materials aren’t the only potential source of the Treasure Island cesium-137 contamination, either. Treasure Island ran a salvage and repair operation during the Cold War years when the West Coast was crowded with ships crippled and made radioactive from atomic tests, according to documents in military archives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The base was opened for civilian use in 1996, including the leasing of former military housing to 2,000 civilians. Then in 2011, San Francisco approved plans for a 20,000-resident redevelopment project, estimated to cost $1.5 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, the city’s mayor, traveled to China last week to try to consummate a deal for China to loan $1.7 billion to Lennar Corp. for development at Treasure Island and the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/matierandross/2013/04/11/chinese-deals-for-hunters-point-ti-collapse/\">News reports Thursday\u003c/a> said the deal fell through after the Chinese government insisted on greater control over the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Hunters Point, the Navy long denied the presence of significant radioactive contamination. But in 2001, journalist Lisa Davis of SF Weekly reported that radioactive material had been mishandled during 1940s and 1950s decontamination operations and during experiments at the former base’s Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory. Congressional leaders eventually pressed for a full cleanup, delaying development plans there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Testing the soil\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics maintain that Treasure Island’s radioactive cleanup would have been completed long ago had the Navy fully acknowledged potential contamination when testing began in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94059\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 150px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/cir3a.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-94059\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/cir3a-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Reporter Matt Smith extracts soil near what was once the radiation exposure room at Treasure Island's former RADIAC Instrument Maintenance School, closed by the U.S. Navy in 1993.(Kerri Connolly/Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reporter Matt Smith extracts soil near what was once the radiation exposure room at Treasure Island's former RADIAC Instrument Maintenance School, closed by the U.S. Navy in 1993.\u003cbr>(Kerri Connolly/Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As recently as March, state public health workers were unearthing new radiological contamination on Treasure Island. A crew spent about 5½ days checking for radioactivity in publically accessible areas, backyards and front yards in a section of the island where residents live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They found five locations with elevated radiation levels, according to Gonzalo Perez, chief of the department’s radiologic health branch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the buildings on the parcel surveyed by CIR was identified in a 2012 Navy historical study as potentially contaminated with cesium. But the Navy argued in internal reports to state regulators that there was no cause for concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navy told state regulators in a June memo that “not one soil sample collected from Treasure Island” had worrisome concentrations of cesium-137.\u003cbr>\nCIR’s new findings, based on surveys with sensitive radiation detection equipment followed up with soil sample tests at two radiation laboratories, throw into question those assertions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soil tests by Eberline Services showed cesium-137 contamination of 0.180 picocuries per gram. \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/682943-new-world-testing-april4-report-a-ti-cs-137-4-3-13.html\">Tests of the same samples by New World Environmental\u003c/a> showed higher levels: up to 0.315 picocuries per gram. A picocurie, or one-trillionth of a curie, is a standard measure of the intensity of radioactivity in a sample of material. The differences between the two labs’ results are within the statistical uncertainty inherent in testing low-level radiation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last April, the Navy reported that it had conducted 200 soil tests and that the greatest concentration of cesium-137 it had found on Treasure Island was 0.104 picocuries per gram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of the CIR-commissioned lab results also exceeded the Navy’s threshold for releasing land for development at Treasure Island: 0.113 picocuries per gram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navy first established that threshold while cleaning up its property at Hunters Point. That level is at the low end of average global fallout contamination, meaning that Hunters Point, cleaned up to those established levels, actually is less radioactive than much of the San Francisco Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site of the cesium-137 contamination found by CIR is now a grassy lot frequently traversed by teenagers. Development plans call for construction of an apartment complex called Eastside Commons, wetlands, ballfields, tennis courts and grassy play areas on the surrounding land. Five years ago, the Navy and state regulators declared the classroom buildings there to be noncontaminated, clearing them for future development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerns about the Navy’s work detecting and cleaning up radioactive waste on the island have been festering since 2006. A Navy historical analysis that year suggested there was little to indicate the former base contained significant radioactive waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next year, private contractors hired by the Navy to survey the island found significant radioactive contamination in areas where it shouldn’t have been. One worker received such a high dose of radiation that he was removed from the job. That worker, Robert McLean, was not surprised by CIR’s findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Until you find it, they don’t admit that it is there,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited by Amy Pyle and copy edited by Nikki Frick and Christine Lee.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The independent, nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting is the country’s largest investigative reporting team. For more, visit www.cironline.org. The reporters can be reached at msmith@cironline.org and kmieszkowski@cironline.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1365804393,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":52,"wordCount":2060},"headData":{"title":"Nuclear Byproduct Levels on Treasure Island Higher than Navy Disclosed | KQED","description":"by Matt Smith and Katharine Mieszkowski, Center for Investigative Reporting Land slated for development on Treasure Island contains elevated concentrations of cesium-137, a byproduct of nuclear fission associated with an increased risk of cancer, according to an independent analysis commissioned by the Center for Investigative Reporting. The findings, discovered through soil samples gathered by reporters","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Nuclear Byproduct Levels on Treasure Island Higher than Navy Disclosed","datePublished":"2013-04-12T07:01:05.000Z","dateModified":"2013-04-12T22:06:33.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"94001 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=94001","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/12/nuclear-byproduct-levels-on-treasure-island-higher-than-navy-disclosed/","disqusTitle":"Nuclear Byproduct Levels on Treasure Island Higher than Navy Disclosed","path":"/news/94001/nuclear-byproduct-levels-on-treasure-island-higher-than-navy-disclosed","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>by Matt Smith and Katharine Mieszkowski, Center for Investigative Reporting \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Land slated for development on Treasure Island contains elevated concentrations of cesium-137, a byproduct of nuclear fission associated with an increased risk of cancer, according to an independent analysis commissioned by the Center for Investigative Reporting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.baycitizen.org/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-94067\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/baycitizenlogo3.jpg\" alt=\"baycitizenlogo3\" width=\"224\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>The findings, discovered through soil samples gathered by reporters and tested by two independent certified laboratories, appear to undermine some past statements by the U.S. Navy about the land’s historic uses and the present condition of the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Results show cesium-137 levels up to three times that previously acknowledged by the Navy and at least 60 percent higher than the Navy’s own thresholds for environmental safety.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The questions raised by your testing should be fully vetted by the Navy,” said Gary Butner, former chief of the radiologic health branch at the California Department of Public Health, who was a state watchdog for the Treasure Island cleanup until he retired in 2011. “I just don’t have a sense there’s a strong commitment to go and (clean) the site. They just don’t want to spend any money there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94071\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 298px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/12/nuclear-byproduct-levels-on-treasure-island-higher-than-navy-disclosed/treasureisland-0412/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-94071\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-94071\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/TreasureIsland-0412.jpg\" alt=\"Treasure Island radiation sign\" width=\"298\" height=\"198\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Treasure Island is the site of an ongoing radiation cleanup operation that some California health authorities have faulted for overlooking the possibility of contamination from nuclear fission byproducts, such as cesium-137.\u003cbr>(Kerri Connolly/Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Exposure to cesium-137 “can result in cancer risks much higher than typical environmental exposures,” according to the federal Environmental Protection Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concentrations discovered by \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/\">CIR\u003c/a> do not necessarily confirm a health hazard, according to Jan Beyea, a prominent nuclear physicist specializing in the health effects of low-level radiation. They are no greater than common contamination worldwide from 20th-century nuclear fallout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Beyea said, the unexpected finding should prompt a more thorough evaluation of the island for potentially hotter spots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that there is a level above standards is a clear mandate for further study and assessment of the extent of contamination and its origin,” Beyea wrote in an email, adding that more systematic testing is particularly important given that public play areas are planned nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Building a playfield is not an appropriate plan at this time,” he wrote, “given the tendency for little children to put things in their mouths.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94056\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 150px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/cir1a.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-94056\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/cir1a-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Reporter Katharine Mieszkowski carries buckets containing carefully separated soil samples from Treasure Island, which later were tested at two independent certified radiation labs.(Kerri Connolly/Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reporter Katharine Mieszkowski carries buckets containing carefully separated soil samples from Treasure Island, which later were tested at two independent certified radiation labs.\u003cbr>(Kerri Connolly/Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>CIR shared the test results with the Navy, City of San Francisco, and state Departments of Public Health and Toxic Substances Control, requesting interviews with experts involved in the Treasure Island cleanup. All four responded with statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navy said the test results did not warrant action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Such limited data taken out of context doesn’t provide much value in determining site conditions or making programmatic decisions,” wrote Keith Forman, the Navy’s Treasure Island cleanup coordinator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Tymoff, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee’s Treasure Island development director, said CIR’s findings provide no reason for the city to take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city has no basis to comment on the validity or accuracy of the tests,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Public Health said it “does not comment on research conducted by others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the Department of Toxic Substances Control, which oversees the Navy cleanup, said in a statement that it had to review the findings and would work with the Public Health Department “to determine what it means and where we go from here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butner and other state radiation specialists have for years complained in emails, reports and memos that the Navy has been reluctant to test for fission byproducts such as cesium-137 – despite a Cold War history suggesting the possibility of such contamination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the Navy has focused on radium-226, used for glow-in-the-dark ship deck markers and gauges commonly discarded at military bases during the mid-20th century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The distinction is significant: If Treasure Island were contaminated only with radium, that would be consistent with the former base’s public face as a way station and barracks for sailors on their way to the Pacific. Potential contamination by fission byproducts such as cesium-137, however, points to possible aftereffects of Treasure Island’s more guarded history: host to radioactive ships from Bikini Atoll atomic tests and a major education center training personnel for nuclear war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butner said the Navy’s didn’t look for all the waste that might have been left behind during the base’s Cold War years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of going out and surveying the ground for everything, they said, ‘OK, this is what we’re looking for, and we’re not looking for cesium, for thorium,” he said. “The federal government’s motivation is to keep moving forward and not ask many questions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cold War Legacy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CIR-commissioned findings bolster criticisms, contained in hundreds of pages of internal emails and memos from specialists at the state Public Health Department, that accuse the Navy of failing to adequately inspect Treasure Island for radioactive waste and of perhaps minimizing its Cold War legacy to more swiftly sell off the former base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94057\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 150px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/USS_Pandemonium_Photo.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-94057\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/USS_Pandemonium_Photo-150x150.png\" alt=\"Until the early 1990s, the U.S. Navy operated atomic warfare training academies on Treasure Island. Some radioactive materials were stored in and around a mocked-up nuclear war training ship, the USS Pandemonium.(U.S. Navy photo)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Until the early 1990s, the U.S. Navy operated atomic warfare training academies on Treasure Island. Some radioactive materials were stored in and around a mocked-up nuclear war training ship, the USS Pandemonium.\u003cbr>(U.S. Navy photo)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Navy repeatedly has rebuffed health officials’ demands that Treasure Island be thoroughly vetted for radioactive contamination – a multimillion-dollar job – before it is made available for a planned high-rise development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navy stands to receive more than $100 million from San Francisco for the base, provided the military performs a satisfactory cleanup of chemical and radioactive waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until the early 1990s, the Navy operated atomic warfare training academies on Treasure Island, using instruction materials and devices that included radioactive plutonium, cesium, tritium, cadmium, strontium, krypton and cobalt. These supplies were stored at various locations around the former base, including supply depots, classrooms and vaults, and in and around a mocked-up atomic warfare training ship – the USS Pandemonium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CIR’s samples were taken from under a palm tree 50 feet from a classroom building where cesium-137 was kept, according to military archives. A 1974 radiation safety audit identified cesium samples used and stored there with radioactivity several times the amount necessary to injure or kill someone who mishandled them. In 1993, shipping manifests from the same building showed even greater amounts of cesium-137 taken away from the same site that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minute amounts of cesium-137 can contaminate broad areas. When a Spanish steel mill in 1998 accidentally incinerated an amount less than that stored in the Treasure Island classroom building, the smoke plume deposited detectable radioactive material hundreds of miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concentrations found in the CIR-commissioned tests represented mere trillionths of the quantities once stored nearby. It’s exposure to low-level radioactive contamination, however, that researchers have linked to cancer risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Classroom materials aren’t the only potential source of the Treasure Island cesium-137 contamination, either. Treasure Island ran a salvage and repair operation during the Cold War years when the West Coast was crowded with ships crippled and made radioactive from atomic tests, according to documents in military archives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The base was opened for civilian use in 1996, including the leasing of former military housing to 2,000 civilians. Then in 2011, San Francisco approved plans for a 20,000-resident redevelopment project, estimated to cost $1.5 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, the city’s mayor, traveled to China last week to try to consummate a deal for China to loan $1.7 billion to Lennar Corp. for development at Treasure Island and the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/matierandross/2013/04/11/chinese-deals-for-hunters-point-ti-collapse/\">News reports Thursday\u003c/a> said the deal fell through after the Chinese government insisted on greater control over the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Hunters Point, the Navy long denied the presence of significant radioactive contamination. But in 2001, journalist Lisa Davis of SF Weekly reported that radioactive material had been mishandled during 1940s and 1950s decontamination operations and during experiments at the former base’s Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory. Congressional leaders eventually pressed for a full cleanup, delaying development plans there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Testing the soil\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics maintain that Treasure Island’s radioactive cleanup would have been completed long ago had the Navy fully acknowledged potential contamination when testing began in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94059\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 150px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/cir3a.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-94059\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/cir3a-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Reporter Matt Smith extracts soil near what was once the radiation exposure room at Treasure Island's former RADIAC Instrument Maintenance School, closed by the U.S. Navy in 1993.(Kerri Connolly/Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reporter Matt Smith extracts soil near what was once the radiation exposure room at Treasure Island's former RADIAC Instrument Maintenance School, closed by the U.S. Navy in 1993.\u003cbr>(Kerri Connolly/Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As recently as March, state public health workers were unearthing new radiological contamination on Treasure Island. A crew spent about 5½ days checking for radioactivity in publically accessible areas, backyards and front yards in a section of the island where residents live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They found five locations with elevated radiation levels, according to Gonzalo Perez, chief of the department’s radiologic health branch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the buildings on the parcel surveyed by CIR was identified in a 2012 Navy historical study as potentially contaminated with cesium. But the Navy argued in internal reports to state regulators that there was no cause for concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navy told state regulators in a June memo that “not one soil sample collected from Treasure Island” had worrisome concentrations of cesium-137.\u003cbr>\nCIR’s new findings, based on surveys with sensitive radiation detection equipment followed up with soil sample tests at two radiation laboratories, throw into question those assertions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soil tests by Eberline Services showed cesium-137 contamination of 0.180 picocuries per gram. \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/682943-new-world-testing-april4-report-a-ti-cs-137-4-3-13.html\">Tests of the same samples by New World Environmental\u003c/a> showed higher levels: up to 0.315 picocuries per gram. A picocurie, or one-trillionth of a curie, is a standard measure of the intensity of radioactivity in a sample of material. The differences between the two labs’ results are within the statistical uncertainty inherent in testing low-level radiation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last April, the Navy reported that it had conducted 200 soil tests and that the greatest concentration of cesium-137 it had found on Treasure Island was 0.104 picocuries per gram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of the CIR-commissioned lab results also exceeded the Navy’s threshold for releasing land for development at Treasure Island: 0.113 picocuries per gram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navy first established that threshold while cleaning up its property at Hunters Point. That level is at the low end of average global fallout contamination, meaning that Hunters Point, cleaned up to those established levels, actually is less radioactive than much of the San Francisco Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site of the cesium-137 contamination found by CIR is now a grassy lot frequently traversed by teenagers. Development plans call for construction of an apartment complex called Eastside Commons, wetlands, ballfields, tennis courts and grassy play areas on the surrounding land. Five years ago, the Navy and state regulators declared the classroom buildings there to be noncontaminated, clearing them for future development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerns about the Navy’s work detecting and cleaning up radioactive waste on the island have been festering since 2006. A Navy historical analysis that year suggested there was little to indicate the former base contained significant radioactive waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next year, private contractors hired by the Navy to survey the island found significant radioactive contamination in areas where it shouldn’t have been. One worker received such a high dose of radiation that he was removed from the job. That worker, Robert McLean, was not surprised by CIR’s findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Until you find it, they don’t admit that it is there,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited by Amy Pyle and copy edited by Nikki Frick and Christine Lee.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The independent, nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting is the country’s largest investigative reporting team. For more, visit www.cironline.org. The reporters can be reached at msmith@cironline.org and kmieszkowski@cironline.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/94001/nuclear-byproduct-levels-on-treasure-island-higher-than-navy-disclosed","authors":["236"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_356"],"tags":["news_4218","news_18543","news_80","news_3041","news_1279","news_4220"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_81842":{"type":"posts","id":"news_81842","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"81842","score":null,"sort":[1354561432000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"treasure-island-development-plans-inch-forward","title":"Treasure Island Development Plans Inch Forward","publishDate":1354561432,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>by Matt Smith and Katharine Mieszkowski, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/development/story/treasure-island-development/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/BayCitizenLogo1.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/BayCitizenLogo1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-81874\">\u003c/a>After a decade of delays, San Francisco is taking concrete steps toward turning the former sandbar known as Treasure Island into a $1.5 billion condominium community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, obstacles remain for the project, a top priority for three of the city’s mayors. Barriers include political uncertainty about a bid for loans from the Chinese government, a pending environmental lawsuit, and residents’ worries about the U.S. Navy‘s cleanup of toxic and radioactive waste at the former military base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_81846\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/Treasure-sland.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-81846\" title=\"Cleanup crews aboard boats use a boom to\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/Treasure-sland-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Treasure Island (AFP)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We can’t say with certainty they will not find additional stuff,” project director Michael Tymoff told a Nov. 28 meeting of island residents. But “our experts and the California Department of Public Health will be watching to be sure the Navy is properly conducting their surveys and working to the highest human health standards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meeting marked the beginning of a possible end to a holding pattern that began in 1997, when the military closed Treasure Island Naval Station. Challenges –including the cleanup, financing and City Hall debate over the scope of the development – extended the interim rental of base housing to civilians from a few years to more than 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arrangement has dragged on so long that the electrical infrastructure is wearing out, subjecting residents of adjacent Treasure and Yerba Buena islands to nearly 40 outages this year.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Yerba Buena Island tenants face a Dec. 31 deadline to choose apartments elsewhere on the island to make way for a proposed 2014 groundbreaking of the first phase of the 8,000-unit mixed-use development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is a partner in the site’s redevelopment, and local officials hope to use Mayor Ed Lee’s star power as San Francisco’s first Asian American mayor to help woo Chinese officials into approving a $1.7 billion loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Lee canceled a November trip to China, blaming the delay on the recent ascension of former Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, who became general secretary of the Communist Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Making big decisions on the financing at a time when there was a change in leadership in China could have introduced uncertainty,” Lee told The Bay Citizen. “We just want to be sure we’re in good standing and hope that the funding remains a priority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor’s office referred questions about loan details to Lennar Corp., which is leading the development consortium. But when asked about terms, status and backup financing, a Lennar spokesman offered no comment. Previously, reports have linked the deal to a development contract with the China Railway Construction Corp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At last week’s meeting, Yerba Buena Island residents were less concerned about international financing than more personal concerns: crime rates on neighboring Treasure Island and whether replacement units there measure up to their current duplexes. Some expressed concern that they would be moving into a radioactive waste cleanup site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime renters at Yerba Buena Island, where former Navy family housing rents for upward of $1,813 per unit, have been offered the option of apartments of similar size and value at Treasure Island. There, they’ve been promised a version of rent control, where rates will rise at a fraction of inflation. Rental benefits also will apply to housing in the new development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who opt not to move to Treasure Island are eligible for a $5,000 opt-out premium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twelve-year Yerba Buena Island resident Ken Masters said he doesn’t trust Navy officials’ reassurances that radioactive waste on Treasure Island poses no public health threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re saying, ‘Just take our word for it; it’s safe,’ ” Masters said. “Never mind the radioactive signs. Never mind the guys in the decontamination suits doing soil tests. Never mind that you can’t eat a vegetable out of your garden. You’re safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Masters is a plaintiff in a lawsuit alleging that the development’s environmental review was inadequate. A judge is expected to rule this month on whether the Navy accurately documented toxic and radioactive waste on the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are confident that our case is solid and that the court system will recognize the environmental flaws in the project,” said former San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, a co-plaintiff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At last week’s meeting, Tymoff expressed equal certainty, saying the environmental review was complete and predicting San Francisco would overcome the legal challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. Learn more at www.baycitizen.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1354570584,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":798},"headData":{"title":"Treasure Island Development Plans Inch Forward | KQED","description":"by Matt Smith and Katharine Mieszkowski, The Bay Citizen After a decade of delays, San Francisco is taking concrete steps toward turning the former sandbar known as Treasure Island into a $1.5 billion condominium community. However, obstacles remain for the project, a top priority for three of the city’s mayors. Barriers include political uncertainty about","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Treasure Island Development Plans Inch Forward","datePublished":"2012-12-03T19:03:52.000Z","dateModified":"2012-12-03T21:36:24.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"81842 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=81842","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/12/03/treasure-island-development-plans-inch-forward/","disqusTitle":"Treasure Island Development Plans Inch Forward","path":"/news/81842/treasure-island-development-plans-inch-forward","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>by Matt Smith and Katharine Mieszkowski, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/development/story/treasure-island-development/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/BayCitizenLogo1.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/BayCitizenLogo1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-81874\">\u003c/a>After a decade of delays, San Francisco is taking concrete steps toward turning the former sandbar known as Treasure Island into a $1.5 billion condominium community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, obstacles remain for the project, a top priority for three of the city’s mayors. Barriers include political uncertainty about a bid for loans from the Chinese government, a pending environmental lawsuit, and residents’ worries about the U.S. Navy‘s cleanup of toxic and radioactive waste at the former military base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_81846\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/Treasure-sland.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-81846\" title=\"Cleanup crews aboard boats use a boom to\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/Treasure-sland-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Treasure Island (AFP)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We can’t say with certainty they will not find additional stuff,” project director Michael Tymoff told a Nov. 28 meeting of island residents. But “our experts and the California Department of Public Health will be watching to be sure the Navy is properly conducting their surveys and working to the highest human health standards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meeting marked the beginning of a possible end to a holding pattern that began in 1997, when the military closed Treasure Island Naval Station. Challenges –including the cleanup, financing and City Hall debate over the scope of the development – extended the interim rental of base housing to civilians from a few years to more than 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arrangement has dragged on so long that the electrical infrastructure is wearing out, subjecting residents of adjacent Treasure and Yerba Buena islands to nearly 40 outages this year.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Yerba Buena Island tenants face a Dec. 31 deadline to choose apartments elsewhere on the island to make way for a proposed 2014 groundbreaking of the first phase of the 8,000-unit mixed-use development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is a partner in the site’s redevelopment, and local officials hope to use Mayor Ed Lee’s star power as San Francisco’s first Asian American mayor to help woo Chinese officials into approving a $1.7 billion loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Lee canceled a November trip to China, blaming the delay on the recent ascension of former Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, who became general secretary of the Communist Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Making big decisions on the financing at a time when there was a change in leadership in China could have introduced uncertainty,” Lee told The Bay Citizen. “We just want to be sure we’re in good standing and hope that the funding remains a priority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor’s office referred questions about loan details to Lennar Corp., which is leading the development consortium. But when asked about terms, status and backup financing, a Lennar spokesman offered no comment. Previously, reports have linked the deal to a development contract with the China Railway Construction Corp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At last week’s meeting, Yerba Buena Island residents were less concerned about international financing than more personal concerns: crime rates on neighboring Treasure Island and whether replacement units there measure up to their current duplexes. Some expressed concern that they would be moving into a radioactive waste cleanup site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime renters at Yerba Buena Island, where former Navy family housing rents for upward of $1,813 per unit, have been offered the option of apartments of similar size and value at Treasure Island. There, they’ve been promised a version of rent control, where rates will rise at a fraction of inflation. Rental benefits also will apply to housing in the new development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who opt not to move to Treasure Island are eligible for a $5,000 opt-out premium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twelve-year Yerba Buena Island resident Ken Masters said he doesn’t trust Navy officials’ reassurances that radioactive waste on Treasure Island poses no public health threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re saying, ‘Just take our word for it; it’s safe,’ ” Masters said. “Never mind the radioactive signs. Never mind the guys in the decontamination suits doing soil tests. Never mind that you can’t eat a vegetable out of your garden. You’re safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Masters is a plaintiff in a lawsuit alleging that the development’s environmental review was inadequate. A judge is expected to rule this month on whether the Navy accurately documented toxic and radioactive waste on the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are confident that our case is solid and that the court system will recognize the environmental flaws in the project,” said former San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, a co-plaintiff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At last week’s meeting, Tymoff expressed equal certainty, saying the environmental review was complete and predicting San Francisco would overcome the legal challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. Learn more at www.baycitizen.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/81842/treasure-island-development-plans-inch-forward","authors":["237"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_1758"],"tags":["news_3041","news_1279"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_78981":{"type":"posts","id":"news_78981","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"78981","score":null,"sort":[1351198845000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"treasure-island-sites-safe-from-radiation-health-officials-say","title":"Treasure Island Sites Safe From Radiation, Health Officials Say","publishDate":1351198845,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>by Katharine Mieszkowski and Matt Smith, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/health/story/treasure-island-areas-declared-safe/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/BayCitizenLogo5.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-78986\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/BayCitizenLogo5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>State health officials have declared day care and youth centers, ballfields, some residential backyards and other sites on Treasure Island safe from radiation in response to fears about the area’s nuclear past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The surveys taken from 24 publically accessible locations were not part of the Navy’s scheduled cleanup program, but were prompted by \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/health/story/official-hear-treasure-island-residents/\">public concern\u003c/a> about exposure to radioactivity on the former Treasure Island Naval Station.\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://media.baycitizen.org/interactive/ti-radiation/index4.html\" width=\"559\" height=\"698\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Interactive map by Shane Shifflett, The Bay Citizen\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health department technicians found negligible levels of radiation posing no health threat at those locations, according to California Department of Public Health reports produced in response to a public records request by \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org\" target=\"_blank\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>. But that doesn’t mean the former base is ready for a proposed 20,000-resident community approved this year by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. At cordoned off areas around the island, the cleanup of contamination continues in and around areas slated for future construction.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navy acknowledged at an Oct. 16 community meeting that extensive work remains, including additional radiation surveys of locations such as the former site of the USS Pandemonium, a mock-up ship used to train sailors to decontaminate ships hit with nuclear fallout. That site is surrounded by former barracks now used as low-income housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the Navy has yet to respond to recent reports that the military has not fully vetted Treasure Island for possible nuclear waste. On Oct. 4, state health officials told the Navy that it had not adequately explored the possibility that during its years as a military base, Treasure Island might have been dusted with radioactive ash, soaked with radioactive sewage and contaminated with radioactive garbage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navy plans to formally answer the health officials’ critique by mid-December, according to Melanie Ault, Base Realignment and Closure Program coordinator for the Navy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of all the public areas surveyed recently, only one showed elevated levels. An infield of the baseball field located at Avenue H and Ninth Street, with the exception of the area around third base, had a radiation level “slightly less than twice background. The soil in the affected area was noticeably darker,” wrote John G. Fassell, chief of radioactive material inspection for the Compliance and Enforcement Section of the state’s health department, in a report dated Oct. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that darker ground apparently had been added to the field. “The little league groundskeeper indicated he had been bringing in fill material as top dressing for the infield from off site as part of his maintenance of the field,” the report said, concluding it “does not pose a health threat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent City Hall hearing, the city’s environmental engineer assigned to monitor cleanup of the former Navy base suggested Treasure Island is getting closer to being ready for redevelopment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No health and safety concerns were identified by the California Department of Public Health,” testified Amy Brownell, environmental engineer with the San Francisco Department of Public Health, at an Oct. 15 hearing of the Board of Supervisors Rules Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the hearing, where some Treasure Island residents wore T-shirts that read “Hell No We Won’t Glow,” Brownell sought to reassure them that their homes are not radioactive. “Treasure Island is safe for current residents and workers and will remain safe,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kathryn Lundgren, co-founder of the grassroots Treasure Island Health Network, said that the health department surveys did not go far enough. “They’ve never been in my backyard,” said Lundgren, who lives on Bayside Drive adding: “Their scope needs to be larger.” The recent surveys did include some backyards on nearby Gateview Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Treasure Island Development Authority and the Navy requested the scans, following \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/environment/story/radiation-history-treasure-island-more/\">concerns heightened by the revelation\u003c/a> in August that radioactive contamination at the Treasure Island Naval Station is more widespread than previously disclosed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Areas tested included The Boys and Girls Club, Kendrex Winery, Treasure Island Childcare Center and the Great Lawn. Most readings came in at “background radiation levels.” Some minimal radiation exists everywhere, but those readings are low enough to not be considered a health risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team looked at one fenced area next to a soccer field where cleanup workers from Shaw Environmental store radioactive waste in a large box inside a second fenced area. The restricted area inside that locked gate showed readings ranging from 20 to 90 microrems per hour – still well below the levels the Environmental Protection Agency recognizes as a health threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The area was surveyed after a report of an entrance to the larger fenced area being left open. Shaw workers assured health officials that “the locks on the gate and the large box are barriers that would prevent access and possible exposure to radiation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an Oct. 5 letter to residents of the island, Brownell said that the new health department surveys included seven of nine locations that the Navy recently identified as having “the potential to be ‘radiologically impacted.’ ” She wrote: “As of today, the Navy has not discovered any evidence of radiological contamination in these newly identified areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the rules committee hearing in San Francisco, Supervisor David Campos called for additional testing. “Why not test the neighborhoods?” he said. “If I lived there, it is something that I would like to see my government do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brownell responded that testing areas not identified as possibly contaminated can stir public concern, causing “more fear and anxiety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Sullivan, the Navy’s environmental coordinator emphasized at a Navy-run community meeting on Oct. 16 that the health department surveys would not be the last: “This doesn’t mean that the Navy and regulatory agencies won’t do formal detailed inspections of the same areas,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next month, the Navy plans to release an inventory of the waste that has been taken off the base in the “last couple of years,” Sullivan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the mid-1990s, Treasure Island has been slated to become the site of a second downtown San Francisco. But those plans have been delayed by a Navy legacy of toxic and nuclear waste and an expensive, time-consuming cleanup. Those efforts were set back even further this summer when the Navy acknowledged it had severely misjudged the amount of radioactive material that might have been handled during Treasure Island’s decades as a Naval base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, the Navy announced plans for a more aggressive nuclear waste cleanup, to be completed some time next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. Learn more at www.baycitizen.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1351222773,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1165},"headData":{"title":"Treasure Island Sites Safe From Radiation, Health Officials Say | KQED","description":"by Katharine Mieszkowski and Matt Smith, The Bay Citizen State health officials have declared day care and youth centers, ballfields, some residential backyards and other sites on Treasure Island safe from radiation in response to fears about the area’s nuclear past. 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But that doesn’t mean the former base is ready for a proposed 20,000-resident community approved this year by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. At cordoned off areas around the island, the cleanup of contamination continues in and around areas slated for future construction.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navy acknowledged at an Oct. 16 community meeting that extensive work remains, including additional radiation surveys of locations such as the former site of the USS Pandemonium, a mock-up ship used to train sailors to decontaminate ships hit with nuclear fallout. That site is surrounded by former barracks now used as low-income housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the Navy has yet to respond to recent reports that the military has not fully vetted Treasure Island for possible nuclear waste. On Oct. 4, state health officials told the Navy that it had not adequately explored the possibility that during its years as a military base, Treasure Island might have been dusted with radioactive ash, soaked with radioactive sewage and contaminated with radioactive garbage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navy plans to formally answer the health officials’ critique by mid-December, according to Melanie Ault, Base Realignment and Closure Program coordinator for the Navy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of all the public areas surveyed recently, only one showed elevated levels. An infield of the baseball field located at Avenue H and Ninth Street, with the exception of the area around third base, had a radiation level “slightly less than twice background. The soil in the affected area was noticeably darker,” wrote John G. Fassell, chief of radioactive material inspection for the Compliance and Enforcement Section of the state’s health department, in a report dated Oct. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that darker ground apparently had been added to the field. “The little league groundskeeper indicated he had been bringing in fill material as top dressing for the infield from off site as part of his maintenance of the field,” the report said, concluding it “does not pose a health threat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent City Hall hearing, the city’s environmental engineer assigned to monitor cleanup of the former Navy base suggested Treasure Island is getting closer to being ready for redevelopment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No health and safety concerns were identified by the California Department of Public Health,” testified Amy Brownell, environmental engineer with the San Francisco Department of Public Health, at an Oct. 15 hearing of the Board of Supervisors Rules Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the hearing, where some Treasure Island residents wore T-shirts that read “Hell No We Won’t Glow,” Brownell sought to reassure them that their homes are not radioactive. “Treasure Island is safe for current residents and workers and will remain safe,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kathryn Lundgren, co-founder of the grassroots Treasure Island Health Network, said that the health department surveys did not go far enough. “They’ve never been in my backyard,” said Lundgren, who lives on Bayside Drive adding: “Their scope needs to be larger.” The recent surveys did include some backyards on nearby Gateview Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Treasure Island Development Authority and the Navy requested the scans, following \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/environment/story/radiation-history-treasure-island-more/\">concerns heightened by the revelation\u003c/a> in August that radioactive contamination at the Treasure Island Naval Station is more widespread than previously disclosed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Areas tested included The Boys and Girls Club, Kendrex Winery, Treasure Island Childcare Center and the Great Lawn. Most readings came in at “background radiation levels.” Some minimal radiation exists everywhere, but those readings are low enough to not be considered a health risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team looked at one fenced area next to a soccer field where cleanup workers from Shaw Environmental store radioactive waste in a large box inside a second fenced area. The restricted area inside that locked gate showed readings ranging from 20 to 90 microrems per hour – still well below the levels the Environmental Protection Agency recognizes as a health threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The area was surveyed after a report of an entrance to the larger fenced area being left open. Shaw workers assured health officials that “the locks on the gate and the large box are barriers that would prevent access and possible exposure to radiation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an Oct. 5 letter to residents of the island, Brownell said that the new health department surveys included seven of nine locations that the Navy recently identified as having “the potential to be ‘radiologically impacted.’ ” She wrote: “As of today, the Navy has not discovered any evidence of radiological contamination in these newly identified areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the rules committee hearing in San Francisco, Supervisor David Campos called for additional testing. “Why not test the neighborhoods?” he said. “If I lived there, it is something that I would like to see my government do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brownell responded that testing areas not identified as possibly contaminated can stir public concern, causing “more fear and anxiety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Sullivan, the Navy’s environmental coordinator emphasized at a Navy-run community meeting on Oct. 16 that the health department surveys would not be the last: “This doesn’t mean that the Navy and regulatory agencies won’t do formal detailed inspections of the same areas,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next month, the Navy plans to release an inventory of the waste that has been taken off the base in the “last couple of years,” Sullivan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the mid-1990s, Treasure Island has been slated to become the site of a second downtown San Francisco. But those plans have been delayed by a Navy legacy of toxic and nuclear waste and an expensive, time-consuming cleanup. Those efforts were set back even further this summer when the Navy acknowledged it had severely misjudged the amount of radioactive material that might have been handled during Treasure Island’s decades as a Naval base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, the Navy announced plans for a more aggressive nuclear waste cleanup, to be completed some time next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. Learn more at www.baycitizen.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/78981/treasure-island-sites-safe-from-radiation-health-officials-say","authors":["237"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_18543","news_3386","news_3041","news_1155","news_38","news_1279"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_74613":{"type":"posts","id":"news_74613","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"74613","score":null,"sort":[1346173563000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"navy-sought-to-stifle-radiation-concerns-about-treasure-island","title":"Navy Sought to Stifle Radiation Concerns About Treasure Island","publishDate":1346173563,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Matt Smith and Katharine Mieszkowski, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/environment/story/navy-sought-stifle-radiation-concerns/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/BayCitizenLogo5.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-74618\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/BayCitizenLogo5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>As U.S. Navy officials readied a report this summer acknowledging a broader history of radioactive contamination at Treasure Island, they also sought to prevent California health officials from adding to the written record their concerns that the cleanup had been mishandled, according to internal emails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navy \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/environment/story/radiation-history-treasure-island-more/\">acknowledged for the first time\u003c/a> on Aug. 6 that the former Treasure Island Naval Station, where San Francisco plans to build a 20,000-resident high-rise community, was home to a repair and salvage operation for the Pacific fleet and that some of those ships could have been contaminated with radiation. The draft report also said that a school preparing sailors for nuclear warfare might have left behind radioactive residue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"http://media.baycitizen.org/interactive/ti-radiation/index4.html\" width=\"559\" height=\"698\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Interactive map by Shane Shifflett, The Bay Citizen\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study came in response to regulators with the California Department of Public Health, who since 2010 have pressed for details after cleanup workers found radioactive waste in unexpected locations Internal emails show that health officials asked the military as recently as mid-May to step up radiation testing efforts. Military officials, meanwhile, pressed for health regulators not to present their concerns in writing.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Internal emails show that health officials asked the military as recently as mid-May to step up radiation testing efforts. Military officials, meanwhile, pressed for health regulators not to present their concerns in writing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 10, Anthony Konzen, a Navy manager of the Treasure Island cleanup, wrote in an email that he did not believe that California public health officials had the authority to regulate the cleanup of radioactive materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t believe comments will be needed,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Code of Regulations gives the health department the authority to certify whether radiation levels in a vacated facility are safe for human contact. Navy officials, however, emphasize the primacy of federal Superfund cleanup law, implemented by state toxics officials. A health department spokesman explained in an email that the agency provides radiation expertise to cleanup officials and it enforces California laws designed to protect the public from harmful effects from radiation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 15, Navy cleanup manager David Clark exchanged emails with a state toxics official saying it would be better if health officials only expressed their concerns verbally during meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be nice to avoid another letter if we can answer the questions now,” Clark wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 17, James Sullivan, the Navy’s environmental coordinator also expressed a wish not to see public health regulators’ written memos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you receive the memo, don’t send it to us,” Sullivan wrote to a state toxics official. “If after your review, DTSC (Department of Toxic Substances Control) is not satisfied with the content, and/or if it is not clearly written and to the point, I would recommend sending it back to CDPH for revision. That way, the Navy does not receive any memo from CDPH that DTSC has not endorsed.” He followed up to say his Navy superiors agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, four hours later senior health department physicist Larry Morgan produced a memo criticizing the Navy’s handling of the cleanup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been several (high-radiation) shipments and about a thousand intermodal (containers) of radium waste shipped from Treasure Island,” he wrote, adding that previous Navy explanations for the radioactive waste on the island were insufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navy took 1,500 soil samples throughout Treasure Island testing for chemical waste, yet failed to examine them for radioactivity despite the possibility they were contaminated, Morgan wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not an acceptable” radioactive cleanup, he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memo included an attached 2011 message saying the Navy had failed to respond to requests for documentation of its work, and that it had been ordered to halt operations because workers had been improperly transporting radioactive waste. Unless the Navy followed health department orders, the city of San Francisco would be saddled with decontaminating the island itself, the attached message said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morgan followed up with a June 6 memo urging the Navy to broaden its search for potential radioactive contamination and conduct long-term testing for the possible presence of elements such as cesium-137, a carcinogen used in industrial instruments, and which is also a byproduct of nuclear explosions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By writing the memos, Morgan’s concerns are part of the public record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its Aug. 6 report, the Navy responded that cesium-137 was not a problem because devices containing the element had been handled properly over the years. Some Pacific fleet ships were exposed to Cold War atomic blast tests. But Navy officials said at an Aug. 21 community meeting that only decontaminated ships were berthed at Treasure Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 20 island residents attended the meeting, alarmed by the recent disclosures and about learning of them through The Bay Citizen coverage. Many complained the Navy had not fully informed them about potential radioactivity near their homes. One resident questioned asked why the California Department of Public Health was not represented at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Sullivan said that his May 17 message sought to make sure he only received opinions from the proper agency. In his view, that’s not the Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really (the Department of Toxic Substances Control) that is the representative of the state,” he said. “From our viewpoint, we are looking to DTSC to provide us the input.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a conference call interview, three state toxics officials said they disagreed with health department physicists who have claimed since 2010 that the Navy botched its radiation cleanup. Treasure Island is safe for human habitation, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Saul Bloom, head of the base-cleanup watchdog Arc Ecology, said the Navy’s base cleanup program has a history of seeking the most lenient regulator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Department of Toxic Substances Control sees its role as helping move properties off the Navy’s books,” Bloom said. “The Department of Public Health sees its role as protecting public health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Navy cleanup spokeswoman Melanie Ault wrote yesterday that, “The emails and memorandums cited should not be taken to imply that the Navy is working outside the regulatory process for environmental cleanup actions at Treasure Island.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, she said, the Navy expects the state of California to “speak with one voice through DTSC.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bloom, along with former San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, has sued the Navy for allegedly conducting an inadequate Treasure Island environmental review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The top Navy cleanup officials are not merely burying their head in the sand,” Peskin said after reviewing the Navy messages. “They’re writing emails that say they don’t want to know the truth about radioactive waste.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. Learn more at www.baycitizen.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1346182988,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":1176},"headData":{"title":"Navy Sought to Stifle Radiation Concerns About Treasure Island | KQED","description":"Matt Smith and Katharine Mieszkowski, The Bay Citizen As U.S. Navy officials readied a report this summer acknowledging a broader history of radioactive contamination at Treasure Island, they also sought to prevent California health officials from adding to the written record their concerns that the cleanup had been mishandled, according to internal emails. 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The draft report also said that a school preparing sailors for nuclear warfare might have left behind radioactive residue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"http://media.baycitizen.org/interactive/ti-radiation/index4.html\" width=\"559\" height=\"698\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Interactive map by Shane Shifflett, The Bay Citizen\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study came in response to regulators with the California Department of Public Health, who since 2010 have pressed for details after cleanup workers found radioactive waste in unexpected locations Internal emails show that health officials asked the military as recently as mid-May to step up radiation testing efforts. Military officials, meanwhile, pressed for health regulators not to present their concerns in writing.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Internal emails show that health officials asked the military as recently as mid-May to step up radiation testing efforts. Military officials, meanwhile, pressed for health regulators not to present their concerns in writing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 10, Anthony Konzen, a Navy manager of the Treasure Island cleanup, wrote in an email that he did not believe that California public health officials had the authority to regulate the cleanup of radioactive materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t believe comments will be needed,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Code of Regulations gives the health department the authority to certify whether radiation levels in a vacated facility are safe for human contact. Navy officials, however, emphasize the primacy of federal Superfund cleanup law, implemented by state toxics officials. A health department spokesman explained in an email that the agency provides radiation expertise to cleanup officials and it enforces California laws designed to protect the public from harmful effects from radiation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 15, Navy cleanup manager David Clark exchanged emails with a state toxics official saying it would be better if health officials only expressed their concerns verbally during meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be nice to avoid another letter if we can answer the questions now,” Clark wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 17, James Sullivan, the Navy’s environmental coordinator also expressed a wish not to see public health regulators’ written memos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you receive the memo, don’t send it to us,” Sullivan wrote to a state toxics official. “If after your review, DTSC (Department of Toxic Substances Control) is not satisfied with the content, and/or if it is not clearly written and to the point, I would recommend sending it back to CDPH for revision. That way, the Navy does not receive any memo from CDPH that DTSC has not endorsed.” He followed up to say his Navy superiors agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, four hours later senior health department physicist Larry Morgan produced a memo criticizing the Navy’s handling of the cleanup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been several (high-radiation) shipments and about a thousand intermodal (containers) of radium waste shipped from Treasure Island,” he wrote, adding that previous Navy explanations for the radioactive waste on the island were insufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navy took 1,500 soil samples throughout Treasure Island testing for chemical waste, yet failed to examine them for radioactivity despite the possibility they were contaminated, Morgan wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not an acceptable” radioactive cleanup, he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memo included an attached 2011 message saying the Navy had failed to respond to requests for documentation of its work, and that it had been ordered to halt operations because workers had been improperly transporting radioactive waste. Unless the Navy followed health department orders, the city of San Francisco would be saddled with decontaminating the island itself, the attached message said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morgan followed up with a June 6 memo urging the Navy to broaden its search for potential radioactive contamination and conduct long-term testing for the possible presence of elements such as cesium-137, a carcinogen used in industrial instruments, and which is also a byproduct of nuclear explosions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By writing the memos, Morgan’s concerns are part of the public record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its Aug. 6 report, the Navy responded that cesium-137 was not a problem because devices containing the element had been handled properly over the years. Some Pacific fleet ships were exposed to Cold War atomic blast tests. But Navy officials said at an Aug. 21 community meeting that only decontaminated ships were berthed at Treasure Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 20 island residents attended the meeting, alarmed by the recent disclosures and about learning of them through The Bay Citizen coverage. Many complained the Navy had not fully informed them about potential radioactivity near their homes. One resident questioned asked why the California Department of Public Health was not represented at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Sullivan said that his May 17 message sought to make sure he only received opinions from the proper agency. 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