Opened in 1944, Seaport was one of many apartment projects built to house the boom of war workers flooding the Bay Area during World War II. It was demolished in the early 1950's. Seaport was built right next to the Stauffer Chemical facilities, and on top of land that had been contaminated by many decades of toxic manufacturing.

December 20, 2002

• West County Times: "Council Requests Uranium Study But Says No Environmental Impact Report Is Needed for Ex-Stouffer Chemical Land" ["sour smells and eerie sights were a daily given in the lives of neighborhood children"]

August 31, 2004

• SF Chronicle: Life in Seaport -- next door to a plant making pesticides
[..."When the stink settled, it left a fine mustard-brown dust on the cars parked outside."]


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Seaport Garden Club members pose with a 26-pound cabbage in 1948. Photo courtesy of Ethel Dotson		Ethel Dotson as a child lived in the Seaport war housing project next door to the Stauffer Chemical factory. Chronicle photo by Lance Iversen

Spring, 2005

• Spring issue: Terrain magazine,"Ravaged Roost" ["The forgotten residents of Richmond's south shoreline have put up with industrial contamination for a century."]

	Environmental activist Ethel Dotson, former Seaport resident whose efforts led to the formation of the DTSC Community Advisory Group for the Zeneca Site, with an emissary from Ecuador at a 2004 event in Richmond sponsored by Amazon Watch.