Dear Treasure Island Authority Board, thanks (but really no thanks) for the toxic parks!

The Navy says Treasure island is polluted with dangerous ‘forever chemicals’ that could be nearly impossible to clean up, which thwarts the Treasure Island Development Authority’s plans to bestow on the City of San Francisco a toxic swathe of land larger than Golden Gate Park. by Carol Harvey To my neighbors: I’m writing this article for you. You are a neighbor I care about who lives on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay. Or you are a colleague, friend and neighbor who lives in Hunters Point. Or you are my neighbor living somewhere else in the City of San Francisco and, like me, you are affected by everything that happens here. I am not only your neighbor. I am an investigator who has covered Treasure Island since 2014. I’m an investigator working on Treasure Island since 2014. – Photo: Carol Harvey I’m here to tell you that no matter where you live in this city, for decades you have had the wool pulled over your eyes about Treasure Island. Many of you don’t know that the island was built in the Bay out of landfill in 1936 by the Army Corps of Engineers for the Golden Gate International Exposition, a...