![]() Pelosi, whose district includes Hunters Point, expressed dismay at the contract award. Two company executives plead guilty last year and were sentenced to prison. Department of Justice for faking soil samples during a cleanup project in San Francisco’s former Hunters Point naval shipyard. Tetra Tech Inc., the engineering firm hired by state officials to test potentially contaminated soils on burned homesteads, has been sued by the U.S. The effort has begun amid uncertainty and potential legal conflict. ![]() Last month, crews in white protective suits launched what will be a massive effort to scrape away the scars from Paradise and other hillside towns, making them safe for re-habitation – or at least a clean slate for wildfire survivors to re-imagine their future. It also left behind an ugly and toxic mess more than 5 million tons of ash, deformed steel, seared concrete and blackened car husks. The calamitous Camp Fire leveled Paradise and other hillside towns near Chico, killing nearly 90 residents and destroying 19,000 buildings. Safe and coordinated debris removal is critical to the rebuilding of these communities.” “There is no dollar limit on this mission. “This is the largest fire clean-up the agency has ever funded,” David Passey of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said last week. Seasoned federal disaster experts acknowledge they are embarking on something unprecedented. The $3.5 billion operation will be by far the most extensive post-disaster cleanup the state has dealt with. Still, state disaster relief leaders say they are optimistic one month into what is expected to be a one-year-long effort. And so far, only about one third of the eligible burned-out property owners in the hills around Paradise have agreed to be part of the government-run cleanup, prompting concerned Butte County leaders to schedule a press conference Thursday urging residents to sign up before a looming end-of-January deadline. ![]()
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