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The Sludge Chronicles Between 1955 and '59, the USS Cahokia shipped countless containers of radioactive chemicals from the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard through the Golden Gate, to the Gulf of the Farallones. These barrels, dubbed "special cargo" contained high level, long-lived radioactive material which carry a minimum half-life of 24,000 years. Corroding slowly over time, these barrels continue to break down, turning this once pristine environment into a