[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: "Honolulu [HI] Board of Water Supply shuts down Halawa well to protect against Navy’s fuel contamination"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Honolulu Board of Water Supply shuts down Halawa well to protect against Navy’s fuel contamination

By Sophie Cocke 
Honolulu Star-Advertiser (HI)
December 3, 2021 

The Honolulu Board of Water Supply has shut down its Halawa well to protect southern Oahu’s drinking water from potentially being contaminated with petroleum. The precautionary measure was taken after the Navy announced last night that it had determined the source of contamination within its water system was coming from petroleum in its Red Hill shaft.

The water systems maintained by the Honolulu Board of Water Supply and Navy are separate. But the wells both pull water from the same aquifer.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2021/12/03/breaking-news/honolulu-board-of-water-supply-shuts-down-halawa-well-to-protect-against-navys-fuel-contamination/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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