Ahimsa Porter Sumchai MD, PD (Postdoctoral Fellow)
The Hunters Point Naval Shipyard (HPNS) is a federal Superfund site located on the historic Hunters Point promontory extending east into San Francisco Bay. It is adjacent to a densely populated neighborhood home to San Francisco’s largest childhood population. HPNS is a “Super Superfund Site” — one of the most contaminated properties on the federal Superfund list, assigned an EPA Hazard Index of 100 for ground water migration. The Parcel E-2 federal Superfund site occupies the southern shoreline. In 2016 the EPA designated Yosemite Slough a federal Superfund site HPNS drains into…like a toilet that does not flush!

On the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard!

In the latest chapter of “The Superfund Saga”, HP Biomonitoring scientists detect four signature shipyard toxins in South Basin neighbors. The discovery began in July of 2019, when a family of four underwent urine toxicological screening that detected four chemicals in elevated concentrations. Those chemicals are Arsenic…Gadolinium…Manganese…and Vanadium. All four are chemicals or radionuclides of concern…