Hunters Point, a Superfund Site in San Francisco Bay, California

Hunters Point, a Superfund site in San Francisco Bay, California, that's heavily contaminated with PCBs, was used as a study area to develop tools and methods to assess contaminated sediments. The standard method to assess an ecological hazard made analyses very difficult and inconclusive. Therefore, the goal of USGS scientists and their colleagues was to characterize the relationship between bioavailable PCB (controlled in situ by amendments of activated carbon) and the functional ecology of the benthic community.

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• Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, Superfund Program, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency