[CPEO-MEF] FUEL, HOUSING: "Navy vs. Army water crisis lists add to victim frustration, " HI

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy vs. Army water crisis lists add to victim frustration

by Gina Mangieri
KHON TV 2 News (HI)
December 13, 2021

HONOLULU - The Army now says 24 military housing communities are impacted by the water crisis linked to the Navy’s fuel and water systems. That’s more than double the areas the Navy lists as affected by contamination. Always Investigating digs deeper into the discrepancy.

Officials say “impacted” or “affected” doesn’t mean “contaminated” - another mixed message atop conflicting maps and lists that grow by the day. People unable to use water in their homes for weeks share their frustrations with KHON2.

For the 93,000 people on the Navy’s water system across the Pearl Harbor and surrounding-area section of Oahu, it’s not just their water that’s unclear. Whether their housing community is affected is in dispute depending on where you look.

The Navy as of today still shows just 11 areas on the list of “affected” areas, including Aliamanu and Red Hill where residents first raised alarms about the scent of fuel in their water last month.

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For the entire story, see
https://www.khon2.com/always-investigating/navy-vs-army-water-crisis-lists-add-to-victim-frustration/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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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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