By Jessica Wolfrom : sfexaminer – excerpt
Candlestick Heights residents report health problems due to concrete crushing in vacant lots
The wind has always whipped up the earth at Candlestick Point, a waterfront expanse at the southeastern tip of San Francisco.
But last summer, Gayle Hart noticed a new kind of dust in the air. A brown film had settled over her neighborhood. It coated her car, crept into the corners of her patio and clogged her lungs.
Some days, the flurries were so bad that her 13-year-old son was unable to play basketball at the nearby playground. “He was only out there for about five minutes,” she said. “The dirt kept coming in his eyes.”…
Residents of Bayview’s Candlestick Heights neighborhood say the dust has been kicked up by concrete crushing and other industrial activity that recently has moved into the open parcels across the street from Hart’s townhouse on Arelious Walker Drive…(more)