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The Hunters Point Naval Shipyard was a United States Navy shipyard in San Francisco, California, located on 638 acres (258 ha) of waterfront at Hunters Point in the southeast corner of the city. Originally, Hunters Point was a commercial shipyard established in 1870, consisting of two graving docks.
The former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard (HPNS) is located in the southeastern portion of the city of San Francisco on a peninsula that extends into the San Francisco Bay. HPNS was operated as a...
With China looming, Hunters Point Navy Shipyard has new strategic relevance. Is it time to reverse BRAC decisions and reactivate this long-abandoned Bay Area Navy base?
170-foot Point Avisedero was pulverized into five million cubic yards of earth, which was then dumped into the Bay and spread out to create the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard we know today. The Civil Grand Jury Report highlights this crucial moment of creation, a birth of “land” that offers “a junk drawer full of problems.”
The long-running cleanup of one of the nation’s most contaminated sites crossed a major hurdle on Thursday as officials announced the final phase of plans to remove radioactive and industrial waste from San Francisco’s former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard.
The Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in the southeastern portion of the City and County of San Francisco, California. The site operated as a shipyard from 1939 to 1974 and housed the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory (NRDL) from 1946 to 1969.
The Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, a former active U.S. Naval base, is undergoing a multi-year cleanup of toxic materials to protect the community and environment. Follow this page for updates. We provide current information on the Navy's efforts to clean-up and restore the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard.