[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: "Navy agrees to halt operations at a Hawaii fuel facility tied to tainted water after military families got sick"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy agrees to halt operations at a Hawaii fuel facility tied to tainted water after military families got sick


By Chris Boyette and Holly Yan
CNN
January 11, 2022 


(CNN)After a petroleum leak contaminated drinking water and sickened military families and children in Hawaii, the US Navy says it will follow an order from state health officials to halt operations at its Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage facility.

The announcement came the day before a Tuesday hearing about the water crisis by the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness and weeks after the Navy said it would contest the Hawaii Department of Health's order.

The fuel facility sits 100 feet above the Red Hill aquifer, which supplies drinking water to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam and other parts of Hawaii. Nearly 1 million people on Oahu rely on it for water, according to the Hawaii Board of Water Supply.

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For the entire story, see
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/11/us/hawaii-pearl-harbor-water-navy-halting-operations-red-hill/index.html

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Lenny Siegel
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