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Toxic fuel and fire suppressant spills at the Navy’s Red Hill fueling facility have grabbed the headlines, and cleanup and shutdown of the facility to prevent further contamination of Oahu’s water supply remains an urgent task.
The Honolulu Board of Water Supply is still trying to find new water sources to make up for the capacity it lost after the 2021 Red Hill water crisis prompted it to take its Halawa shaft and two smaller wells offline to ensure jet fuel didn't make its way into the public drinking water system.
The Honolulu Board of Water Supply is still trying to find new water sources to make up for the capacity it lost after the 2021 Red Hill water crisis prompted it to take its Halawa shaft and two smaller wells offline to ensure jet fuel didn’t make its way into the public drinking water system.
For weeks, community members and state lawmakers representing Ewa Beach have been soliciting donations of bottled water for students at Iroquois Point Elementary School amid myriad concerns about unsafe drinking water due to either lingering effects of the 2021 Red Hill water crisis or the detection in 2022 of unsafe lead levels in a number of the school’s water fountains and sinks.
In November 2021, the United States Navy started to receive complaints that the drinking water for the Pearl Harbor-Hickam naval base smelled of gasoline. As it turns out, subsequent...
Some military families have worried there may have been other contamination in their water that was never identified, and suspect the fuel contamination began months before the November fuel spill at Red Hill.
Tim Graham/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Activists are calling on the Navy to take action almost a year after the Hawaii Department of Health issued an emergency
(NEW YORK) — A lawsuit alleges the Navy “harbored toxic secrets” after jet fuel leaked from a storage facility in Hawaii operated by the Navy, contaminating locals’ drinking water and sickening hundreds of families. “You’ve got American citizens being poisoned by an American asset on […]