A mass community petition is underway demanding environmental justice from the US Navy. Power plants, and a sewage treatment plant. The Navy illegally walked off the job 19 months ago. Only a lawsuit by ARC Ecology, the Bayview Advocates and community resident Jill Fox brought them back to work.
Many parts are unsafe for human use.
A revitalized Hunters Point Shipyard can be a boon to the Bayview Hunters Point community. It can be its undoing. As a public asset and San Francisco's last major tract of developable land, the Shipyard must make benefit to the surrounding community its primary objective. Bayview Hunters Point residents and community-based organizations have joined with San Francisco's environmental community as the Community First Coalition for Hunters Point Shipyard. We have come together to demand the full and immediate cleanup of San Francisco's most contaminated land as well as ensure its conversion to a neighborhood serving, community building, and wealth enhancing development that will serve Bayview Hunters Point residents.