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Air Pollution

In San Francisco county San Francisco, the top polluters are San Francisco Drydock Inc., Chevron, and PGE. Only 7% of houses are at high risk of lead hazards. In 2004, San Francisco county ranked among the cleanest 10% of all counties in the US in terms of number of superfund sites. Super fund is a United States federal government program designed to fund the cleanup of sites contaminated with hazardous substances and pollutants. We have the Treasure Island Naval Station annex as our super fund site. It was originally used and apart of the Navy in the early 1900's. I found out that our county is among the worst 10% in the US among its air quality and I also found out that are water could be much better as well as it lies under the national average. Our low income communities and communities of color are more likely to suffer greater impacts of environmental degradation making it no better than the rest of the country. Basically, there are a lot of things that San Francisco county can improve upon.

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  1. Caitlin WintonSeptember 16, 2018 at 1:17 PM

    Hi Jordan,

    It's great to read that San Francisco was in the top 10% for Superfunds. San Diego was at the complete opposite end, they were in the bottom 10%. I also thank that maybe San Francisco is so good because it's such a small urban city.

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  2. UnknownSeptember 16, 2018 at 9:35 PM

    Hi Jordan,

    It's interesting that SF ranks in the 10% worse cities for air quality. I know the population of the city is dense, but the public transportation options are good from what I hear. Do you think it's caused by the immense number of visitors that come into the city with their cars?

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 17, 2018 at 9:39 AM

    My county is on the lower 10%. I am glad at least I work in the top 10% cleanest city. I found it interesting that lot of these Superfund sites are privately owned - I would have thought it would be a federally run sites.

    As far as the pollution, it make sense that a major city would be in that bracket. I wonder how launch of Lyft and Uber contributed to that problem. I see people taking these services just for a five minute walking distance commute. I also see lot of people from out of SF driving in to provide these services.

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