These sweet people, bombarded from every direction by radionuclides, chemicals, and asbestos, lead and mold contaminants, appear to be placeholders until Lennar can populate the island with condos for 19,000 high end renters. The Site 12 community seems warehoused on extremely valuable, dangerously poisonous property. It’s remarkable how they take care of and love each other. Site 12 people are friendly to neighbors and strangers.
Later, when I lost my way to Gateview Avenue to catch the 108, an African-American elder with a kind of awesome gentility noticed my confusion and offered directions. Patrick is one of several small business owners who are as friendly as his Site 12 neighbors. “How else can you find me? I’m in the northwest corner of Treasure Island inside of an old prison. “I have a lot of signs,” he replied laughing. “Patrick, I have to give you credit for having Fat Grape signs everywhere,” I said. On a recent warm spring night, I walked to the Berkeley side of Site 12 by the fire training station, plopped down in a chair in the Fat Grape Winery next to a sign reading, “Group therapy practiced here,” and, over a glass of delicious, red, sulfite-free cabernet sauvignon, sat shooting the breeze with vintner Patrick Bowen. Navy’s gift of Treasure Island toxic soup to mix with irradiated ocean water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant, perhaps detectable along the California Coast by April 2014. Imagine the vessel sliding toward Japan bearing the U.S.
On the tidy front lawn of your market rate or low income Site 12 rental brought to you courtesy of The John Stewart Co., it is as if you are standing at the bow of the radioactive vessel as it carries its toxic contents ever forward into a stunning red-gold sunset. Think of Treasure Island as an iridescent green glowing ghost ship whose prow divides the blue waves as it navigates San Francisco Bay waters gliding northwest under the Golden Gate Bridge. He attributes some of his sickness to radiation releases on toxic Treasure Island. Is Treasure Island radiation making Jim ill? Jim Serrano talks about the illnesses he’s been having since he moved onto Treasure Island: polycythemia, a form of leukemia, unidentified liver disease and constant pain.
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