[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Water supplied by the Army shows dangerous levels of PFAS at Kunia Village, Hawai’i"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Water supplied by the Army shows dangerous levels of PFAS at Kunia Village, Hawai’i
Hawai’i, Army won’t share recent test results.

By Pat Elder 
Military Poisons
September 22, 2025 

Kunia Village provides subsidized  rental housing for farm workers and their families.

Although it took more than two and a half years, the Army has finally answered a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the Environmental Caucus of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i concerning the dangerous levels of PFAS contamination in the drinking water at Kunia Village, a rural community of about 650 residents roughly 22 miles northwest of Pearl Harbor.  Kunia Village’s drinking-water system is owned and operated by the U.S. Army as part of its Schofield Barracks–Kunia Water System in central Oʻahu. 

The FOIA request sought detailed information on PFAS contamination: it asked for data on the presence of PFAS in Kunia Village’s drinking water, documentation of PFAS in the groundwater at Wheeler Army Airfield and Schofield Barracks, and records of PFAS in the wastewater generated by the Schofield Barracks Wastewater Treatment Plant. It also requested any records on the use of aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF)—a firefighting foam known to contain high concentrations of PFAS—at both Wheeler and Schofield.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.militarypoisons.org/latest-news/water-supplied-by-the-army-shows-dangerous-levels-of-pfas-at-kunia-village-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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