Arc Ecology Team Nears Recommendation for San Francisco International Airport Funded Study of Wetlands Construction Opportunity at Hunters Point Shipyard
In 2008 the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB) ordered San Francisco International Airport (SFO) to include a study by Arc Ecology to determine the feasibility of creating a Crissy Field type of wetlands park including an area for storm water pollution treatment on Parcel E, the southern shoreline of the Hunters Point Shipyard.
The wetlands would help offset the impact of Bay filling and wetlands destruction that occurred with the airport’s runway expansion nearly 20 years ago. South Basin, is an inlet of San Francisco Bay off of Parcel E - the south shore of the Shipyard. The basin is a Bay Area impaired body of water with constant inputs of pollution from street run-off and combined storm water and sewage overflows. Nevertheless subsistence fishers supplement their food sources with fish caught in this body of water despite signage in multiple languages warning against the practice. The wetlands would help mitigate this problem by treating street runoff from a portion of the Shipyard before it reached the South Basin. In 2009, the Airport awarded a contract to Arc Ecology to implement the study.
Status Report
Arc Ecology’s consultants have now identified a site on Parcel E for the 20 acre storm water treatment wetland and lagoon, beach, and surrounding habitat. The site is approximately half the size of the Crissy Field lagoon. Arc will be completing a 40 page conceptual report concluding the first phase of this process and submitting it as commentary during the upcoming Parcel E Final Feasibility Study review in March. In the second phase our consultants will begin the engineering design for the wetlands and bring it to a 60% level to enable the City of San Francisco, Shipyard Master Developer Lennar, and the Navy to determine the consistency of the plan with ongoing cleanup and reuse requirements.
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