Introduction: Several Hunters Point organizations sent a letter to Laura Duchnak, Director of BRAC (realignment and closure of the base), on September 17, 2019, as a formal request for the restoration of the Hunters Point Shipyard Restoration Advisory Board (RAB). “The request to restore the reinforced rabS through a petition signed and distributed among 240 citizens of Bayview Hunters Point, responding to the regulations of the Ministry of Defense”evidence of sufficient and sustained network interest,” Dr. Ahimsa Sumchai wrote in an article entitled “Power grants nothing without a request: the network demands the restoration of the Hunter Points RAB Shipyard.”
“Enough community interest” is a key thing that will have to be valued to repair the BAR. The community’s interest in the Navy’s environmental recovery activities has been and has grown in recent years. The military is required to periodically assess community interest and deserve to repair rab where this interest is “sufficient and sustained,” Dr. Sumchai said.
Department of Defense and EPA rules require RAB training at all closing facilities where the network expresses interest. »
Residents of Hunters Point, who suffer from incredibly high rates of cancer and other diseases that can be attributed to “worrying contaminants” at the shipyard, ask for a voice in cleanup decisions. Here, Dr. Sumchai, once back, affirms the community’s right to environmental justice.
by Ahimsa Porter Sumchai, MD
Dear Mrs. Duchnak,
I would like to record a formal complaint contrary to recent decisions and movements made through the realignment and closure of the Naval Facilities Command Base – PRO West. In particular, I call director Kimberly Ostroski and BRAC environmental coordinator Derek J. Robinson. My express court cases come with the following, as well as with supporting documents:
1. The Navy BRAC decision not to reestablish the RAB was based on a limited survey return of 40 respondents that did not match the response of over 200 petitioners who signed and supported the community-led initiative to reestablish the RAB.
2. BRAC research did not arrive with the functioning medical clinic located less than a quarter mile from Hunters Point Shipyard and the neighborhood’s main transit center on Third Street and Palou. Hunters Point Community Biomonitoring Medical Screening Clinic has been operating since December 2019 on Third Street and Revere, near the shipyard’s main front. The Hunters Point Clinic is not included in any mail or survey related to the re-establishment of rab.
3. The effects of the BRAC survey did not respond to the basic factor raised through the petitioners and did not reveal the survey’s reaction to the direct question on the respondents’ idea of the reinstatement of RAB. The factor raised through the petitioners is not how the network liked your Navy BRAC COMMUNICATIONS. The challenge is the express request to reintroduce the RAB!
Four of them. I strongly oppose the adoption of BRAC by the navy of the fundamental soil criteria derived from radiologically affected spaces of the Federal Supersphondo site at HPNS (Hunters Point Naval Shipyard) and fraudulent comments imaginable in the official brac communications of the Navy that aim to involve spaces of Plot C, adding Building 813 of the 800 series and a domain where a power plant has burned the radiation Operation Crossroads vessels that are not radiologically affected. I informed the BRAC Navy that the maximum logical location for calculating the background grades is the Presidio.
5. I strongly oppose the inability of the Navy’s BRAC to incorporate into possible designations of radionuclides of fear the effects of intelligently derived and geospatial human biomonitoring that detected high-frequency thallium and manganese on shipyard staff and neighbouring residents. Thallium is well documented through HRA and the fear chemicals of plots A and C to be detected as often as possible. Despite its short half-life of 4 years, it is dangerous, as it has been banned as a rodent killer for reasons of protection and human health.
6. I object to recent excavations off the coast of plot E contaminated by radiation that release well-documented chemical pollutants and disclose close to staff and citizens who have documented the framework of many of these chemicals in HP biomonitoring tests.
7. I oppose the marine’s valid and arrogant right to episodic discharges from the landfill of the E-2 plot, releasing methane at explosive concentrations and volatile discharge content that are now detected in urine toxicology tests conducted through a qualified mass specification laboratory in shipyard staff. neighbors neighbors
8. Respond within 30 days.
Ahimsa Porter Sumchai, MD
SF Bay View’s environmental and health science editor Ahimsa Porter Sumchai, MD, PD, founder and principal investigator of the Hunters Point Community Biomonitoring Program, founding chair of the Radiology Subcommittee of the Hunters Point Shipyard Restoration Advisory Board and collaborator of the 2005 Historical Radiological Assessment Project, can be contacted in [email protected]. Dr. Sumchai is Medical Director of Golden State MD Health – Wellness, a ucSF and Stanford trained researcher, and a board member of the UCSF Medical Alumni Association.
by Sharon Chin, KPIX
San Francisco: Persistent as a pit bull: This is how some colleagues call this week’s Jefferson Award winner, a doctor who is making pioneering paintings in the Bayview Hunters Point community in San Francisco.
Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai examines dozens of others for exposed to 35 metals and potentially poisonous radiation.
He runs the Hunters Point biomonitoring program, the first independent community program of its kind in a federal Superfund that examines those who have lived at least a year within a mile of the previous one. Hunters Point Shipyard.
“This is one of the most infected homes in the United States,” Dr. Sumchai said.
She co-founded the bio-monitoring program in 2019 as a volunteer. Now, the program receives a $70,000 grant from the Lucile Packard Foundation.
Sumchai says his evidence shows that other people living in the Hunter’s Point community in San Francisco have maximum levels of arsenic and other items.
“I’ve analyzed the effects of arsenic and it’s probably mind-boggling,” Dr. Sumchai said. “This is related to several tumors and we have two screening tests as a component of the organization of women in the southern pelvis who have had several tumors.”
Dr. Sumchai also discovered several citizens with high degrees of vanadium, such as Nikcole Cunningham and his son Immanuel Lowery.
His exposure to vanadium would likely cause nosebleeds and migraines.
“I went on to elegance and couldn’t concentrate, and I thought, ‘I have to move on to my room. I’m sorry,” Lowery said. “Because it was like hurting my head and it couldn’t work. I couldn’t read.”
The military argued that the cleanup of the massive poisonous sale was and remained skeptical of any link between neighbors’ fitness disorders and poisonous and radioactive elements in the former shipyard.
But Dr. Sumchai is determined to continue his research, especially since the domain is planned for primary remodeling projects in the city.
It is an inspiration to the co-founder of the biomonitoring project, Dr. Ramona Tascoe.
“She doesn’t want others to lead the road,” Tascoe said. “If he sees an obstacle, he takes it off, jumps it, dodges it.”
Dr. Sumchai is a treating physician on the Persian Gulf Orange Agent’s Toxic Substances Registry for the Palo Alto Veterans Administration.
He’d like to identify a poisonous record for Hunters Point.
“It is clear to me that this is important. It is clear to me that this is revolutionary,” Dr Sumchai said.
The Stanford trainee grew up at Hunters Point and his father, a shipyard stevedore, died of asbestos poisoning.
She says she’s been running for the effects of fitness on the neighborhood.
For studies on the fitness of others living near the Hunter’s Point Shipyard’s Superfund site, this week’s Jefferson Bay Area Award is awarded to Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai.
Sharon Chin is a general project journalist who also presents Jefferson Award winners for KPIX Five Eyewitness News. She says she is proud and encouraged to share the stories of the heroes of the network. She can be [email protected]. Contact her to nominate the Jefferson Prize. This story is republished with perproject.