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Ccarlsson: fixed caption

2020-01-28T00:05:42Z

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	'''Garbage truck alongside ~~Union~~ Square, c. 1933'''		'''Garbage truck alongside Portsmouth Square, c. 1933'''

	'''BAYSHORE RAILROAD SUPERFUND SITE:''' 30 acres of 180-acre former Southern Pacific railyard in Visitacion Valley. A 1000-foot plume of chemicals flows in the ground water, including TCE (trichloroethylene) at 62,000 times the drinking-water standard. Also has high levels of vinyl chloride, lead, heavy metals and an oil spill that soaked 660,000 acre-feet of soil.		'''BAYSHORE RAILROAD SUPERFUND SITE:''' 30 acres of 180-acre former Southern Pacific railyard in Visitacion Valley. A 1000-foot plume of chemicals flows in the ground water, including TCE (trichloroethylene) at 62,000 times the drinking-water standard. Also has high levels of vinyl chloride, lead, heavy metals and an oil spill that soaked 660,000 acre-feet of soil.

Ccarlsson: fixed video code

2014-04-03T17:19:19Z

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	''by Chris Carlsson''		''by Chris Carlsson''

	'''Interview with Ruth Gravanis, longtime board member of San Francisco Tomorrow, summer 2010, part of the Ecology Emerges collection.'''		'''Interview with Ruth Gravanis, longtime board member of San Francisco Tomorrow, summer 2010, and Karen Pickett, longtime Berkeley recycling activist, part of the [http://shapingsf.org/special/ecology-emerges.html Ecology Emerges collection].'''

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	''Interview conducted and edited by Chris Carlsson, video by David Martinez''		''Interview conducted and edited by Chris Carlsson, video by David Martinez''

Ccarlsson at 05:56, 26 July 2011

2011-07-26T05:56:17Z

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	[[San Bruno Mountain\|return to San Bruno Mountain]]		[[San Bruno Mountain\|return to San Bruno Mountain]]

	[[Bayview/Hunter's Point Toxic Tour\|Prev. Document]] [[~~Candlestick view~~\|Next Document]]		[[Bayview/Hunter's Point Toxic Tour\|Prev. Document]] [[Playing in Bayview\|Next Document]]

	[[category:Bayview/Hunter's Point]] [[category:Ecology]] [[category:San Francisco outside the city]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:1970s]] [[category:1930s]] [[category:1960s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:Waste]]		[[category:Bayview/Hunter's Point]] [[category:Ecology]] [[category:San Francisco outside the city]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:1970s]] [[category:1930s]] [[category:1960s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:Waste]]

Ccarlsson: added category Waste

2010-09-11T00:40:26Z

added category Waste

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	[[Bayview/Hunter's Point Toxic Tour\|Prev. Document]] [[Candlestick view\|Next Document]]		[[Bayview/Hunter's Point Toxic Tour\|Prev. Document]] [[Candlestick view\|Next Document]]

	[[category:Bayview/Hunter's Point]] [[category:Ecology]] [[category:San Francisco outside the city]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:1970s]] [[category:1930s]] [[category:1960s]] [[category:2010s]]		[[category:Bayview/Hunter's Point]] [[category:Ecology]] [[category:San Francisco outside the city]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:1970s]] [[category:1930s]] [[category:1960s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:Waste]]

Ccarlsson at 19:35, 10 September 2010

2010-09-10T19:35:14Z

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	[[Bayview/Hunter's Point Toxic Tour\|Prev. Document]] [[Candlestick view\|Next Document]]		[[Bayview/Hunter's Point Toxic Tour\|Prev. Document]] [[Candlestick view\|Next Document]]

	[[category:Ecology]] [[category:San Francisco outside the city]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:1970s]] [[category:1930s]] [[category:1960s]] [[category:2010s]]		[[category:Bayview/Hunter's Point]] [[category:Ecology]] [[category:San Francisco outside the city]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:1970s]] [[category:1930s]] [[category:1960s]] [[category:2010s]]

Ccarlsson at 19:32, 10 September 2010

2010-09-10T19:32:07Z

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-'''Just south of the (city) border'''
+'''<font face = arial light> <font color = maroon> <font size = 3>Unfinished History</font></font> </font>'''
-The first big toxic pollution in the Bay was 3,500 tons of mercury used in gold mining from 1853 to 1884. By 1900 the Bay reeked of untreated human and factory waste. Oil slicks were everywhere and soiled shorelines were common. From Hunter's Point south to the airport the bay is heavily poisoned. A Taiwanese plastics and textile conglomerate called Tuntex Properties Company bought 840 acres of toxic-contaminated land from Southern Pacific Railroad in 1989 for $108 million. The company wants to build a UCSF medical school facility, a discount mall, a regional shopping center, a 3,350-room hotel, a world trade center, up to 6,400 houses, and a Geneva Avenue extension to Highway 101.
+''by Chris Carlsson''
 '''BAYSHORE RAILROAD SUPERFUND SITE:''' 30 acres of 180-acre former Southern Pacific railyard in Visitacion Valley. A 1000-foot plume of chemicals flows in the ground water, including TCE (trichloroethylene) at 62,000 times the drinking-water standard. Also has high levels of vinyl chloride, lead, heavy metals and an oil spill that soaked 660,000 acre-feet of soil.
 '''BRISBANE GARBAGE DUMP:''' For more than 30 years, San Francisco dumped garbage into the Bay at Brisbane, below [[San Bruno Mountain |San Bruno Mountain]], creating a 600-acre landfill, 40 feet deep, filled with household garbage, hospital infectious waste and industrial chemicals. The former tideland abuts the Brisbane Lagoon which collects storm water pollution and leachate pollution from the dump, which in turn seeps into the bay during the tides.
 '''THE PG&E MARTIN SERVICE CENTER SUPERFUND SITE:''' Across the street from the rail yard a gas-manufacturing plant operated between the 1890s and 1915. It left behind benzene and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, both carcinogens. It is close to a nearby childcare center and public housing project, which are actually built on soil dug from the gas plant site.
-<embed src="http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.1.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="506" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" cachebusting="true" bgcolor="#000000" quality="high" flashvars="config={'key':'#$aa4baff94a9bdcafce8','playlist':['format=Thumbnail?.jpg',{'autoPlay':false,'url':'RuthGravanisOnRecyclingAndIncinerator_512kb.mp4'}],'clip':{'autoPlay':true,'baseUrl':'http://www.archive.org/download/CurbsideRecyclingAndTheIncineratorThatWasnt/','scaling':'fit','provider':'h264streaming'},'canvas':{'backgroundColor':'#000000','backgroundGradient':'none'},'plugins':{'controls':{'playlist':false,'fullscreen':true,'height':26,'backgroundColor':'#000000','autoHide':{'fullscreenOnly':true}},'h264streaming':{'url':'http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.pseudostreaming-3.2.1.swf'}},'contextMenu':[{},'-','Flowplayer v3.2.1']}"> </embed></object>
+Nowadays Sunset Scavenger and Golden Gate Disposal have gone through several consolidations, first into Norcal Waste, and now renamed as Recology, owning fully the [[Scavengers|local garbage collection business]].
 [[San Bruno Mountain|return to San Bruno Mountain]]
-[[category:Ecology]] [[category:San Francisco outside the city]] [[category:1990s]]
+[[Bayview/Hunter's Point Toxic Tour|Prev. Document]] [[Candlestick view|Next Document]]

Ccarlsson: added Ruth Gravanis on the incinerator and curbside story

2010-09-10T16:36:29Z

added Ruth Gravanis on the incinerator and curbside story

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	'''THE PG&E MARTIN SERVICE CENTER SUPERFUND SITE:''' Across the street from the rail yard a gas-manufacturing plant operated between the 1890s and 1915. It left behind benzene and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, both carcinogens. It is close to a nearby childcare center and public housing project, which are actually built on soil dug from the gas plant site.		'''THE PG&E MARTIN SERVICE CENTER SUPERFUND SITE:''' Across the street from the rail yard a gas-manufacturing plant operated between the 1890s and 1915. It left behind benzene and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, both carcinogens. It is close to a nearby childcare center and public housing project, which are actually built on soil dug from the gas plant site.

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			'''Interview with Ruth Gravanis, longtime board member of San Francisco Tomorrow, summer 2010, part of the Ecology Emerges collection.'''

			''Interview conducted and edited by Chris Carlsson, video by David Martinez''
	[[San Bruno Mountain\|return to San Bruno Mountain]]		[[San Bruno Mountain\|return to San Bruno Mountain]]

	[[category:Ecology]] [[category:San Francisco outside the city]] [[category:1990s]]		[[category:Ecology]] [[category:San Francisco outside the city]] [[category:1990s]]

Ccarlsson at 04:33, 28 October 2008

2008-10-28T04:33:58Z

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	'''THE PG&E MARTIN SERVICE CENTER SUPERFUND SITE:''' Across the street from the rail yard a gas-manufacturing plant operated between the 1890s and 1915. It left behind benzene and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, both carcinogens. It is close to a nearby childcare center and public housing project, which are actually built on soil dug from the gas plant site.		'''THE PG&E MARTIN SERVICE CENTER SUPERFUND SITE:''' Across the street from the rail yard a gas-manufacturing plant operated between the 1890s and 1915. It left behind benzene and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, both carcinogens. It is close to a nearby childcare center and public housing project, which are actually built on soil dug from the gas plant site.

			[[San Bruno Mountain\|return to San Bruno Mountain]]

	[[category:Ecology]] [[category:San Francisco outside the city]] [[category:1990s]]		[[category:Ecology]] [[category:San Francisco outside the city]] [[category:1990s]]

Ccarlsson: new page

2008-07-16T22:23:05Z

new page

New page

'''Just south of the (city) border'''

The first big toxic pollution in the Bay was 3,500 tons of mercury used in gold mining from 1853 to 1884. By 1900 the Bay reeked of untreated human and factory waste. Oil slicks were everywhere and soiled shorelines were common. From Hunter's Point south to the airport the bay is heavily poisoned. A Taiwanese plastics and textile conglomerate called Tuntex Properties Company bought 840 acres of toxic-contaminated land from Southern Pacific Railroad in 1989 for $108 million. The company wants to build a UCSF medical school facility, a discount mall, a regional shopping center, a 3,350-room hotel, a world trade center, up to 6,400 houses, and a Geneva Avenue extension to Highway 101.

'''BAYSHORE RAILROAD SUPERFUND SITE:''' 30 acres of 180-acre former Southern Pacific railyard in Visitacion Valley. A 1000-foot plume of chemicals flows in the ground water, including TCE (trichloroethylene) at 62,000 times the drinking-water standard. Also has high levels of vinyl chloride, lead, heavy metals and an oil spill that soaked 660,000 acre-feet of soil.

'''BRISBANE GARBAGE DUMP:''' For more than 30 years, San Francisco dumped garbage into the Bay at Brisbane, below [[San Bruno Mountain |San Bruno Mountain]], creating a 600-acre landfill, 40 feet deep, filled with household garbage, hospital infectious waste and industrial chemicals. The former tideland abuts the Brisbane Lagoon which collects storm water pollution and leachate pollution from the dump, which in turn seeps into the bay during the tides.

'''THE PG&E MARTIN SERVICE CENTER SUPERFUND SITE:''' Across the street from the rail yard a gas-manufacturing plant operated between the 1890s and 1915. It left behind benzene and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, both carcinogens. It is close to a nearby childcare center and public housing project, which are actually built on soil dug from the gas plant site.

[[category:Ecology]] [[category:San Francisco outside the city]] [[category:1990s]]