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Links to photos, media, and other files available for downloading
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Cannery MGP - 1898 to 1906
Located in Fisherman’s Wharf where the Argonaut Hotel is today. After the 1906 earthquake, the Haslett warehouse was constructed at the site and used in connection with canning operations in an adjacent building. The warehouse was converted to a hotel circa 2001.
Historic photographs are located here.
Development of the site can be traced through historic maps located here.
Documents related to the discovery of contamination and subsequent investigation by PG&E and NPS in the 1980s are located here.
Judge’s order in 2022 concluding that PG&E would be liable (if contamination exists) can be found here.
NOB and FIL (Marina)
North Beach MGP - 1893 to 1906
Located in Marina, L shaped, bordering the Safeway on the south and west. An earthen pier, or mole, extended north into the bay. The mole forms the western boundary of Gashouse cove today. A smaller gas holder was constructed on the site prior to 1893. A larger gas holder on the site was used into the 1960s.
The North Beach MGP site plan is here.
Fillmore MGP - 1883 to 1906
Located in the Marina The main section is west of Fillmore and Bay; also includes a gas holder on the site of Marina Middle School.
The Fillmore MGP site plan is here.
Gashouse cove
A small boat harbor in the Marina district of San Francisco with aged facilities, silting up from lack of routine dredging. MGP contamination first found in 1994. Subject of a lawsuit, unsuccessful, between San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department and PG&E in 2001. Video of contamination seeping from underground deposits and bubbling to the surface taken by a berth holder in 2012. Attempt in 2016 to halt the seeping with an interim remediation measure (a mat designed to absorb escaping contamination) failed; visual monitoring and reporting of the bubbling from 2016 to present.
Photos of the interim remediation measure location and construction are here.
A recent report of the monitoring of the bubbling is here.
Subject of a $190M settlement and release agreement between San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department and PG&E in 2021. Current plan is to remove a minimum amount of contamination in one section and add a “shallow-water paddlecraft recreation area” in the section where contamination will not be removed.
Marina Middle School
Located on Fillmore between Chestnut and Bay in the Marina . A gas holder for the Fillmore MGP was located on the site and pipes crisscrossed the grounds. The MGP operated from about 1883 to 1906. The gas holder continued to be used into the 1920s. Multiple plans to test for contamination at the school site have been made beginning in 2010. Results of testing, if any, have not been made public.
A diagram showing the gas holder and pipe lines in relation to the school property can be found here.
Contamination
Contamination notification is here. Contamination wording is here. Contamination photos are here.
Heat maps of Marina contamination are found here. Contamination areas A – B map is here.
Heat maps for Pier 39 offshore contamination are available in low resolution here. For high resolution, view or download the report from the Water Board’s website located here. The heat maps are found on pdf pages 99/855 to 102/855. A multi-year remediation project is being planned for Pier 39, overview here.
Monitoring well cap photos here.