[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: "Thousands displaced from Oahu [HI] military base due to contamination in Navy water system"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Thousands displaced from Oahu military base due to contamination in Navy water system
	
RACHEL TREISMAN
National Public Radio
December 15, 2021

Last week NPR reported that Hawaii had ordered the U.S. Navy to halt operations at the World War II-era Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility after a petroleum leak was found to have contaminated Honolulu's drinking water supply.

We've since learned that samples from the Red Hill Shaft contained petroleum levels that were 350 times the level considered safe, and that some 3,000 military members and their families have been relocated to temporary housing. 

The Navy says it's found the source of the gas leak, but state officials and environmental activists are still calling for the facility to be permanently shut down.

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For the entire story, see
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/15/1064514935/water-contamination-hawaii

See also 
https://www.civilbeat.org/2021/12/the-navy-is-working-on-a-plan-to-dispose-of-contaminated-water-in-hawaii/

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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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