A former Navy cleanup contractor will pay $57 million to resolve allegations that workers falsified environmental testing data during the long-running cleanup of San Francisco’s Hunters Point Naval Shipyard.
The contractor, Tetra Tech EC Inc., was accused of discarding soil samples from potentially contaminated locations and replacing them with clean soil before sending the samples to a laboratory, according to the Justice Department.
The government also alleged that Tetra Tech manipulated database records to make it appear that radiation scans taken in different locations were conducted by the same technician at the same time…