Engineering firm Tetra Tech settled a $97 million lawsuit over falsified soil samples at San Francisco's radioactive Hunters Point Shipyard. The 2013 fraud allegations halted construction of a planned community despite hundreds of homes already built. Cleanup continues after new radioactive material was discovered last year.
The contractor responsible for cleaning up the toxic site at Hunters Point Shipyard just settled its lawsuit against the Department of Justice for $97 million. In 2013, whistleblowers claimed that Tetra Tech, a Navy contractor retained to clean up the radioactive Hunters Point Shipyard site, falsified soil samples and submitted false data in connection with cleanup efforts at the site that's supposed to become one of the largest mixed-use communities in San Francisco's history. Several hundred homes had already been built on the site before construction stopped after the information became public. The DOJ intervened in the lawsuit, and after years After years of litigation, the parties have settled the case for $97 million. The company obviously disclaims wrongdoing, and the agreement must be approved by a US District Court judge following a 30-day comment period before it becomes final. There are still a bunch of other lawsuits pending, and cleanup efforts at the site are still ongoing after more radioactive material was discovered last year. I'll definitely keep you posted on the development progress, so follow me for more updates, and let me know what you think in the comments. Goodbye.
