By Tim Redmond : 48hills – excerpt
Navy and its contractors gave inaccurate info on chemicals and radiation as development of housing moved forward, data at hearing shows.
For more than ten years, the US Navy provided inaccurate, incomplete or false data on the risks of chemical and radiological contamination at Treasure Island – while the city was moving more than 1,000 mostly low-income people into housing on the island.
That’s what a state official testified today in what Sup. Aaron Peskin called profound information. “You are the first person in a decade and a half to tell the truth,” Peskin said to Anthony Chu, the director of radiation safety at the state Department of Public Health…(more)
Stay tuned as more hearings are on the way.