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This is the map of Treasure Island Navy Base in San Francisco Bay where the city of San Francisco placed low income housing and people have died, are dying and children have died because the base was the Navy’s Chemical, Biological and Radiological training base. 1280 radiological objects were found underneath the housing and where the children play. The playground equipment is radioactive and instead of evacuating everyone the city has an incentive to keep the people in the housing as their rents pay for the The City to redevelop the site.
If you click on any of the land surfaces or the Chemical Icons you will get a list of the dangerous chemicals found in each section of the island from a survey The Baseline Survey of 1995. The list of chemicals is below.
If you click on the purple skull and crossbones you will find the chemical weapons training areas and links to reports on the navy’s activities in those locations.
In 1957, the Navy built a mockup of a ship and conducted Chemical, Biological and Radiological training on the site of the ship and then tore it down and built housing directly on top of the site. The ship was named the USS Pandemonium and in 1969-1971 the ship was moved to the back side of the island nearest to Berkeley.
The black radiation symbols in this interactive Google Map indicate the excessive levels of radiation for each apartment, found in a survey in 2014 and the Navy failed to mention this to the residents. Links to the survey can be found in the descriptions of each icon in the Map.
The radiation amounts exceed the 10 mrems per year amount which is required by federal law and by the state of California for the cleanup. The amounts were predominantly in the 35-55 mrems per year level but a few sites exceeded the 100 mrems federal yearly mandate and they are indicated on my map as red radiation symbols.
Federal regulations have safe distances for separating civilians from a chemical warfare base cleanup which requires evacuation but the The Navy is outright violated those safety regulations to this day!
This is an Atrocity.
These radiological sites are still being rented out to people today!
Federal radiation safety standards set a limit of 100 mrems per year for civilian exposure to radiation from ALL SOURCES and so to make sure no one site causes all the contamination the safe level from any one location is set 10 mrems per year for civilians. The regulator is the California Department of Public Health that implements Federal EPA Regulations.
So how did the Navy write the report for the regulators, the California Department of Public Health?
The Navy claimed that the poor people only live in their apartments for 3 hours a day.
The regulators bought it!
Residents are Pawns
The city is paying for the maintenance of the site through the rents collected from the low income housing and so the city purposely places people in harm’s way so that the Navy can clean up the site and then it can be developed for real estate.
The low income residents are used as pawns and the city has no regard for public health. If the residents show any signs of being ill and complain about it, they are evicted and removed from public assistance. You have to take the punishment or be evicted as the city is doing you a favor by housing you.
The local elementary School had children with their hair falling out and lesions on their skin, the city has since closed it but not for safety issues, they just wanted to rent out the property. But even with the closing, the symptoms did not go away. The School site was used for Chemical Warfare Training in 1969 while they were moving the USS Pandemonium.
If you complain at the City Council meetings, (The San Francisco Board of Supervisors) the city will change your testimony in the official record to be compatible with the public policy, usually changing the content to the exact opposite of the complaint. So the people who attack the city are rewritten to praise the city for its efforts! Names of the landlords and their companies are removed from the record and it anyone complains about this they are evicted from the island.
If you search the city website, the changes of the censored testimony is reflected in the search function. The city record is not valid.
The Chemical Weapons School
Treasure island Navy Base in San Francisco Bay was the Navy’s Chemical, Biological and Radiological Training base where the Navy trained instructors by using chemical weapons, Biological Diseases and they created radioactive fields for live training of personnel who would then go back to their ships and bases and train their men. The training took place continuously from 1944 to 1971 using the live agents and then in 1972 they started to use simulants for the chemical weapons but they continued to use radiological training with radiation fields on the island.
This is an Atrocity!
In 1993 the Navy removed from Treasure Island canisters of ZYKLON B, (Hydrogen Cyanide) which was the Gas the Germans used in the Holocaust. The possession of the Navy having this chemical weapon was a violation of the Chemical Weapons Treaty so the Navy carted it off to Alameda Naval Station where the General Services Administration sold it to the highest bidder.
Chemical weapons training involved kits for the instructors which included vials of chemical weapons (Mustard Gas, Lewisite, Phosgene and Chloropicrin but they would later use other chemical weapons including Sarin Gas. Mustard Gas was the most common chemical weapon used.
Link to the list of Navy chemical weapons kits and their contents.
And there were kits for the students which were used to diagnose the chemical weapon, using specially treated papers or crayons that turned color when a certain chemical comes in contact with them.
Once the chemical weapon is diagnosed they would know how to decontaminate themselves and the local area to clean up the contamination. They mixed up industrial grade bleach and Tetrachloroethene in metal garbage cans and then dump that directly onto the ground. Tetrachloroethene is a chemical that seeps through the ground as a gas and continuously destroys your immune system and causes cancer. Property contaminated with the chemical cannot be used for civilian habitation.
The training manuals show them doing this and the photographs were taken on Treasure Island and they were published by the Bureau of Docks and Yards which is today called NAVFAC, Naval Facilities Engineering Command.
NAVFAC was tasked by Congress to clean up all closed Naval Bases (BRAC) sites and for some strange reason they now claim they have no idea how Treasure Island was contaminated?
Understand, the Navy used these chemical weapons kits on every base, including Marine bases and the Army did this was well all over the US.
Link to map of Naval Training Bases and reserve units.
Link to Map of US Army Chemical Warfare Units in World War II
Biological Warfare – the Navy infected America
The diseases included SERRATIA MARCESCENS which in 1950 was thought to be so safe that the Navy purposely infected San Francisco with the disease spreading it on the fog using a ship off shore to see how far disease spread and they killed a man in a hospital and injured many others.
The disease was thought to be safe because they tested it on healthy 18 year old recruits but it turns out this disease which was used on all Navy and Marine Bases and all Army Bases worldwide causes secondary infections in hospitals all over the world and it is a major problem for anyone who faces surgery.
The Navy used this disease in training until President Nixon outlawed it in 1971. Everyone in the country who has died from this secondary infection found in hospitals can blame the US Navy and the US Army for it.
In 1949 and 1950 the Army and the Navy purposely contaminated the Pentagon with the disease. Again to see how far it would spread. The Navy at the time was located on the Mall in Washington DC next to where the Vietnam Veterans memorial is located, just closer to the Washington Monument.
They used other diseases, including Crop diseases to see how well they could destroy crops of unsuspecting civilian farmers all over the Midwest and the South. They used anthrax against cows. Basically the Army and the Navy after World War II decided to attack the United States and they wrote reports on how much damage they could achieve and revise their tactics all the while committing High Treason!
List of Chemicals from the 1995 Survey which you can see on the map using the chemical icons or by clicking on the ground areas.
You can type in the chemical into the search function of the Google Maps and it will show the locations of that chemical on the Islands.
1,2-DICHLOROBENZENE
1,2-DICHLOROETHENE
1,3-DICHLOROBENZENE
1,4-DICHLOROBENZENE
1,4-DIISOCYANATE
2-BUTANONE
2-HEXANONE
2-METHYLNAPHTHALENE
4-(2,4-DICHLOROPHENOXY) BUTANOIC
4,4'-DDD
4,4'-DDE
4,4'-DDT
4,4-METHYLENEDIS(2-CHLOROANIMINE) WITH INERT COMPONENTS
4-METHYL-2-PENTANONE
A TEAR GAS TRAINING AREA (CS POWDER) CHEMICAL WEAPON
ACENAPHTHENE
ACETONE
ACETONITRILE
ACETYLENE
A-CHLORDANE
ACID (2,4-0B)
ADHESIVE
ADHESIVES, PAINTS, SOLVENTS, TOLUENE, 1,4-DIISOCYANATE WITH INERT COMPONENTS
AIRCRAFT GREASE
ALCOHOL
ALPHA-CHLORDANE
AMMONIUM CHLORITE
ANTHRACENE
ANTIFREEZE
ANTIMONY
AQUEOUS FILM-FORMING FIRE FIGHTING FOAM (AFFF)
ARSENIC
ASBESTOS
ASBESTOS-CONTAINING MATERIAL
BARIUM
BARIUM DIOXIDE
BARIUM PEROXIDE
BENZENE
BENZO(A)ANTHRACENE
BENZO(A)PYRENE
BENZO(B)FLUORANTHENE
BENZO(G,H,I)PERYLENE
BENZO(K)FLUORANTHENE
BERYLLIUM
BERYLLIUM, BRAKE SHOES/PARTS,RAGS, AND CLOTHING
BIODEGRADABLE SOAP
BIS(2-ETHYLHEXYL)PHTHALATE
BLANKET WASH
BLEACH
BTEX
BUILDING 255, A WOOD-FRAME STRUCTURE ON A CONCRETE FOUNDATION, IS CURRENTLY USED AS A CHLORINATION BUILDING
CADMIUM
CADMIUM HYDROXIDE
CALCIUM HYPOCHLORITE
CALCIUM HYPOCHLORITE WITH INERT COMPONENTS
CALCIUM METAL
CARBAZOLE
CARBON DISULFIDE
CASING MATERIAL
CHLORDANE
CHLORINE
CHLORINE GAS
CHLOROBENZENE
CHROMIUM
CHRYSENE
CLEANING PRODUCTS
CLEANING SOLVENT
COBALT HYDROXIDE
COPPER
COPPER (14 /LG/L),
CORRODED FLAMMABLE MATERIALS CABINET
CURIC NITRATE
CYANIDE
CYANIDE SALTS WITH INERT COMPONENT
D TPH-DIESEL
DALAPON
DDT
DDT (0.03 /LG/L),
DIBENZOFURAN
DICAMBA
DICHLORODIPHENYLDICHLOROETHANE [4,4'-DDD
DICHLORODIPHENYLDICHLOROETHYLENE [4,4'-DDE
DICHLORODIPHENYLTRICHLOROETHANE[4,4'-DDT
DIELDRIN
DIESEL
DIESEL-RANGE HYDROCARBONS
DIMETHYL SULFATE WITH INERT COMPONENTS
DISTILLATES (COLOR WASH)
DRUMS OF PETROLEUM
DUPLICATING FLUID
EMPTY PROPANE CYLINDERS
ENDOSULFAN 1
ENDRIN
ENDRIN ALDEHYDE
ENDRIN KETONE
ETHYLBENZENE
ETHYLENE GLYCOL
F DRY POTASSIUM SUPEROXIDE
F PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
FILM
FLAMMABLE LIQUIDS
FLAMMABLES
FLOOR POLISH
FLUORANTHENE
FLUORENE
FUEL PRODUCTS
GAMMA-CHLORDANE
GASOLINE
GASOLINE-RANGE AND UP TO 104 MG/KG DIESEL-RANGE) AND
GASOLINE-RANGE HYDROCARBONS
GLASS CLEANER
GREASES
GROUND WATER (UP TO 1,915 ILG/KG GASOLINE-RANGE AND UP
GUN CLEANING SUPPLIES
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS STORAGE AREA
HAZARDOUS WASTE
HEPTACHLOR
HERBICIDES
HOUSEHOLD CLEANERS
HYDRAULIC FLUID
HYDRAZINE WITH INERT COMPONENTS
HYDROBRAMIC ACID WITH INERT COMPONENT
HYDROCHLORIC ACID WITH WATER
HYDROCYANIC ACID, PHOSPHORIC ACID, AND INERT COMPONENT A SCHEDULE 3 CHEMICAL AND A CHEMICAL WEAPON
HYDROFLUORIC ACID AND WATER
HYDROIODIC ACID WITH INERT COMPONENT
HYPOCHLORITE SALTS WITH INERT COMPONENTS
INDENO
INDENO(1,2,3-CD)PYRENE
IRON
KEROSENE
LEAD
LEAD ACID BATTERIES, WHICH CONTAIN LEAD AND ARSENIC (1,000 TO10,000 IBS/QUARTER);
LEAD-BASED PAINT
LITHIUM BATTERIES, WHICH CONTAIN LITHIUM METAL, TRACE SOLVENTS, PLASTIC/NICKEL CASING AND ACETONITRILE (500 TO10,000 LBS/YR);
LITHIUM HYDROXIDE
LITHIUM HYDROXIDE WITH INERT COMPONENTS
LITHIUM METAL
LITHIUM METAL WITH INERT COMPONENT
LUBE OIL
LUBRICANTS
LUBRICATING OIL
MAGNESIUM
MAGNESIUM AND INERT COMPONENTS
MAGNESIUM BATTERIES, WHICH CONTAIN ZINC METAL, MAGNESIUM DIOXIDE, MERCURIC CHLORIDE, ZINC COMPOUND, AMMONIUM CHARIOT, WATER, AND INERT MATERIALS
MAGNESIUM DIOXIDE
MANGANESE
MERCURIC CHLORIDE
MERCURIC CHLORIDE WITH INERT COMPONENTS
MERCURIC NITRATE
MERCURY
MERCURY AND SILVER AMALGAM
MERCURY SALTS WITH INERT COMPONENT
MERCURY VAPOR RESIDUE WITH METAL AND GLASS DEBRIS
MERCURY WITH INERT COMPONENTS
METAL CASINGS
METAL COASTING
METALS
METHOXYCHLOR
METHY ISOBUTYL KETONE
METHYL ISOCYANATE WITH INERT COMPONENTS
MINERAL SPIRITS, PAINT THINNERS
MOLYBDENUM
MOTOR OIL
NAPALM PIT
NAPHTHALENE
NICKEL
NICKEL HYDROXIDE
NICKEL SULFATE
NICKEL/CADMIUM BATTERIES, WHICH CONTAIN CADMIUM HYDROXIDE, NICKEL HYDROXIDE, COBALT HYDROXIDE, POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE, WATER, AND PACKAGING
NO BENZENE
NONHALOGENATED ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
NONHALOGENATED ORGANICS
NOT EXIST
OIL
OIL AND GREASE
OIL RESERVOIR (.2T-O
ORGANIC ACID
PAINT
PAINT AND CORROSIVES.
PAINT REMOVER, LACQUER, PAINT, ADHESIVE, SEALER, WOOD STAIN, OIL, AND VARNISH)
PAINT THINNER
PAINTS
PAINTS, PAINT THINNERS, SOLVENTS, PESTICIDES, HERBICIDES, METALS, PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS, AND VESSEL WASTE
PCBS
PCBS, INCLUDING TRANSFORMER ARTICLES, CAPACITORS, BALLASTS,AND DEBRIS
PERYLENE
PESTICIDES/PCBS
PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS
PETROLEUM NAPHTHA
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
PHENANTHRENE
PHENOL
PHOSPHORIC ACID
PHTHALATE ESTER
PLASTIC POLISH
PLASTIC ROOF CEMENT
PLASTIC/NICKEL CASING
PLATE CLEANER (TYPE WASH)
POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE
POTASSIUM METAL WITH INERT COMPONENT
POTASSIUM PERCHLORATE
POTASSIUM SUPEROXIDE
POTASSIUM SUPEROXIDE, SODIUM CHLORATE, BARIUM DIOXIDE, POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE, AND METAL CASINGS
PRINTING CHEMICALS WERE STORED IN FLAMMABLE MATERIALS HEXANE
PRINTING INK
PYRENE
RADIOISOTOPE BROMINE-82
RECYCLABLE WASTES
RIFLE BORE CLEANING COMPOUND
ROOFING COMPOUND, RESIN, AND PAINT THINNER
ROUNDUP
SEALING COMPOUNDS
SELENIOUS ACID
SELENIOUS ACID, CURIE NITRATE, NICKEL SULFATE, AND INERT COMPONENTS (100 TO 1,000 IBS/YR);
SELENIUM COMPOUNDS
SILVER
SODIUM ARSENITE WITH INERT COMPONENTS ;
SODIUM ASIDE WITH INERT COMPONENTS
SODIUM BIFLUORIDE WITH INERT COMPONENT
SODIUM CHLORATE
SODIUM CYANIDE
SODIUM CYANIDE WITH INERT COMPONENTS
SODIUM CYANIDE, ORGANIC ACID, WATER, AND METALS
SODIUM HYPOCHLORITE WITH INERT COMPONENTS
SODIUM METAL
SODIUM PEROXIDE WITH INERT COMPONENTS
SOLVENTS
STEAM CLEANER COMPOUND,
SULFRAN
SULFUR DIOXIDE
SULFURIC ACID
SULFURIC ACID AND CASING
SVOCS
SVOCS 2-METHYLNAPHTHALENE
TEAR GAS (CS POWDER) TRAINING EXERCISES
TETRACLORETHANE
THINNERS
TOLUENE
TONER
TPH
TPH (AS DIESEL
TPH (AS DIESEL)
TPH (AS GASOLINE)
TPH-DIESEL
TPH-DIESEL WAS DETECTED IN ONE SOIL SAMPLE AT A CONCENTRATION OF 185 MG/KG.
TPH-GASOLINE
TPH-KEROSENE
TPH-OIL
TPH-OTHER HYDROCARBONS IN THE C12-C14
TRACTOR OIL
TRICHLOROETHENE
TRICHLOROETHYLENE
TRICHLOROETHYLENE/ BENZENE
TRIMETHYL AMMONIUM RESIN
TRPH
TWO DRUMS OF HEXAFLOC WERE LOCATED WITHIN BUILDING 468 DURING THE SITE INSPECTION
VANADIUM
VARIOUS PAHS (RANGE)
VINYL CHLORIDE WITH INERT COMPONENT
VOCS
VOLATILE AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS
WASTE ADHESIVES
WASTE CLEANING SOLVENT
WASTE OIL
WASTE SOLVENTS
WHITE PHOSPHORUS WITH WATER
XYLENE (BTEX)
XYLENES
YELLOW PHOSPHORUS
ZINC
ZINC COMPOUND
ZINC METAL
ZIRCONIUM CHLORIDE
1,000 gallons of adhesives, hydraulic fluid, paint, joint compound, floor cleaner, janitorial supplies, lubricating oil, grease, toner, primer, brake fluid, gasoline, resin, dry cleaning solvent, floor polish remover, toilet cleaner, battery water, and calcium hypochlorite during the site inspection
Approximately 200 gallons of gasoline, hydraulic fluid, lubricant, cleaning solvent, metal coating, plastic polish, and an empty container of toluene and methyl isobutyl ketone were .stored in an unnumbered building east of Building 335
Approximately 220 total gallons of degreaser, sludge remover, sodium hydroxide, root killer, and lift station cleaner, and 60 gallons of gear oil were stored in the open space southwest of Building 550 at the time of the site inspection.
During the site inspection, approximately 4,000 pounds of packaged fertilizer and 100 gallons of engine oil, herbicide (Surflan), hydraulic fluid, gasoline, and degreaser were stored in the southern portion of Building 335
During the site inspection, five 55-gallon drums of various wastes (i.e., hazardous waste, potassium hydroxide, oily rags,
etc.) were located on asphalt within a secondary containment berm in the southeastern portion of the parcel.
During the site inspection, four cylinders and three tanks (30 feet by 7 feet) of sulfur dioxide, nine cylinders and four tanks (30 feet by 7 feet) of chlorine gas, five gallons of degreaser, five gallons of detergent, and five gallons of floor wax were stored within Building 415.
Elevated levels of hydrocarbons were present in the soil
Emergency escape breathing apparatus, which contain sodium chlorate, potassium perchlorate, barium peroxide, lithium hydroxide, and casing material (1,000 to 10,000 lbs./yr.);
Plastic bags with OBA residue, which includes potassium hydroxide, potassium superoxide, barium dioxide, sodium chlorate, and debris;
Potassium superoxide, sodium chlorate, barium dioxide, potassium hydroxide, and metal casing