Projects:

San Francisco Bay Area:

San Francisco
� Hunters Point Shipyard
�Shipyard Waterfront Park
� Yosemite Slough
� Treasure Island
� Presidio
Alameda
�Alameda Naval Air Station
�FISC Annex
East Bay Housing
Oakland
�Chinatown
Vallejo
�Mare Island Naval Shipyard
Contra Costa County
� Concord Naval Weapons Station
Suisun Bay
� Mothball Fleet

National:

Military & the Environment
RABS

International:

Philippines
Okinawa
Hidden Casualties of War

Program Areas:

Environment
Economics
Justice
Education
Public Partnership
War & the Environment

Arc Ecology Library

Factsheets & Information

• Military Base Cleanup: Step by Step (100KB PDF) - Overview of the federal process for cleaning up a contaminated military base in the U.S.
• What is Remediation? (255KB PDF) - Introduction to remediation with examples and explanations of some common remediation methods
• U.S. Military & the Environment (html) - overview of sources of military environmental pollution
• Radiation in Our Environment: An Introduction (151KB PDF) - Introduction to radiation and radioactivity in our environment
• Environmental Laws (html): Overviews of the major federal and state environmental laws that govern the environmental cleanup of federal facilities in California, with links to the text of the regulations

Site-specific Resources

Arc Ecology routinely comments on environmental cleanup, restoration, and redevelopment plans and activities at military installations in the San Francisco Bay area. For Arc Ecology publications and information on a specific site, please see the individual project page:

• Alameda Naval Air Station & FISC Annex
• Hunters Point Shipyard cleanup
• Hunters Point Shipyard redevelopment
• Yosemite Slough restoration
• Mare Island Naval Shipyard
• Treasure Island

Arc Ecology in the Press

For articles in newspapers or magazines that quote or discuss Arc Ecology and the work we do, please see our page about Arc in the press.

Terms of Use

In print: Materials created by Arc Ecology may be reproduced in hardcopy, print form for non-commercial, non-profit educational use as long as appropriate credit is given to Arc Ecology. If you use them, please let us know so that we know what resources people are finding most useful.

Electronic distribution: We encourage other sites to link to our web site publications. If you would like to distribute these materials electronically or in digital form, please get written permission from Arc Ecology. Interested? Please just send us an email or call us at (415) 643-1190.