[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Fort Shafter Hawai’i Child Development Center

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

PFAS Contamination at the Fort Shafter Hawai’i Child Development Center
Contaminated stream flows 60 feet from where children play.

By Pat Elder 
Military Poisons
February 7, 2026

The Fort Shafter Child Development Center is a full-service childcare center located on the base within 300 feet of a former Army firefighting foam training area heavily contaminated with PFAS. A stream believed to be carrying the carcinogenic materials passes just 60 feet from where children play outside.   Given severe, documented PFOS contamination in surface soil within the same drainage approximately 300 feet upstream, it is reasonable to conclude that the adjacent stream is likely impacted, although it has not been tested.

These cancer-causing “forever chemicals” are likely in the air and in the dust at the  daycare facility. They are closely linked to severe pre-natal and childhood developmental harm. The site is  just three miles from downtown Honolulu.
  
From the Preliminary Assessment / Site Inspection, “A fire truck from Tripler Army Medical Center was parked along a curb in the roadway and AFFF was sprayed across a grassy area toward the adjacent, heavily vegetated stream/drainage canal. AFFF was sprayed long enough to make the foam flow, and then was shut off. Surface runoff from the area of potential interest flows to the adjacent heavily vegetated stream/drainage canal, which may be dry at any given time.”



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For the entire article, see
https://www.militarypoisons.org/latest-news/pfas-contamination-at-the-fort-shafter-child-development-center

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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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