Cleaning Up After Breaking Navy Ships

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Portland’s role as a postwar shipbreaking center meant environmental consequences of WWII would extend well beyond the war years. After years of prosperity, the family that built the business would find themselves in possession of a polluted wasteland. Was Portland’s South Waterfront beyond redemption?

Credits
Producer/Writer: Cassandra Profita
Narrator: Cassandra Profita
Photography/Editor: Chris Nolan
Production support: Carolin Jones
Research: Katie Nelson
Archival material: Zidell Companies, NorthWest Ecosystem Services, Inc., Oregon Historical Society Research Library, The Oregonian, City of Portland Archives, Kaiser Permanente Heritage Resources, KOIN Phonodisc Collection, Oregon Historical Society Research Library
Music: Firstcom