[CPEO-MEF] FUEL, PFAS: "Investigation reveals 2021 chemical spill at Pearl Harbor [HI] that public didn’t know about"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Investigation reveals 2021 chemical spill at Pearl Harbor that public didn’t know about

By Mahealani Richardson
Hawaii News Now
May 4, 2023

HONOLULU - HNN Investigates confirmed a previously undisclosed chemical spill at Pearl Harbor. This one happened more than year and a half ago, but the public never knew about it until now.

The spill occurred one month before the Red Hill fuel leaks tainted the Navy’s drinking water system, and that crisis overshadowed the incident.

On Oct. 26, 2021, around 2:30 in the afternoon, roughly 300,000 gallons of water burst from a water main adjacent to the Fire Suppression Pumphouse on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.

The Navy says the water filled the berm area of its Fuel Oil Reclamation Facility and mixed with product from the oil water separators.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2023/05/05/hnn-investigates-previously-undisclosed-toxic-spill-pearl-harbor/

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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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