[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "A New Leak At Red Hill [HI] Dumps Hundreds Of Gallons Of Firefighting Foam"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

A New Leak At Red Hill Dumps Hundreds Of Gallons Of Firefighting Foam
A health department official called the incident “egregious.”

By Christina Jedra
Honolulu Civil Beat
November 29, 2022
 
   
Approximately 1,100 gallons of toxic fire-suppressing foam leaked at the Red Hill fuel facility on Tuesday, the military and Hawaii health department confirmed on Tuesday evening.

Aqueous film forming foam, also known as AFFF, was released on the upper end of the facility into the aboveground soil and into the underground facility, the health department said in a news release. AFFF is used to suppress fuel fires and contains chemicals known as PFAS that are linked to cancer and other health problems. PFAS chemicals are notorious environmental contaminants because they are “forever chemicals” that don’t break down in the environment.

According to the health department, the spill is not expected to have an impact on the water supply located 100 feet below the Red Hill tanks.

“There is no evidence that drinking water was impacted,” DOH spokeswoman Kaitlin Arita-Chang said. “Drinking water remains safe to drink.”

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For the entire article, see
https://www.civilbeat.org/2022/11/a-new-leak-at-red-hill-dumps-hundreds-of-gallons-of-firefighting-foam/

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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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