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At right, Tommie Jean Valmassey looks on as Lora Battaglia shows the material used to cover sediment dredged from the water around Pier One at Alameda Point.

Valmassey and Battaglia were part of a team that conducted a site tour Saturday. The tour included a look at how the Navy is using electricity to clean up polluted groundwater and the cleanup of Site 2, where the Navy dumped some 1.6 million tons of waste along the shore.