[CPEO-MEF] FUEL, MILITARY FAMILIES: Mañana Military Housing, HI (Red Hill)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

This military family hopes for more transparency amid new water complaints

By Catherine Cruz
Hawaiʻi Public Radio
February 20, 2024

At a recent meeting between a Red Hill community group and military officials, a number of military wives shared their frustration about continuing to report intermittent sheens and chemical odors in housing on the Navy's water system.

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Air Force spouse Ashley Smith said her toddler was hospitalized following the 2021 contamination at their Ford Island home. Her family has since moved to Manana Housing in the Pearl City area, but she asked military officials to take their new concerns seriously.

Smith said Manana was on the Honolulu Board of Water Supply system but then switched back to the Navy's system. She has reported intermittently seeing a sheen on their tap water, as well as occasional chemical odors.

"I hope moving forward that there's going to be more transparency, and you guys are actually going to take people's word seriously because every person matters. In the military, you don't leave one man behind. You shouldn't be leaving one family behind either," she said at the meeting.

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For the entire story, see
https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/the-conversation/2024-02-20/this-military-family-hopes-for-more-transparency-amid-new-water-complaints

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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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