[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Hilo Army Aviation Support Facility #2 (HI)

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

PFAS in Hilo, Hawaii
A stream adjacent to Chiefess Kapi’olani Elementary School is contaminated with the carcinogens.

By Pat Elder 
Military Poisons
February 27, 2026

We collected a water sample from a stream running directly behind Chiefess Kapiʻolani Elementary School in Hilo that contained carcinogenic per-and poly fluoroalkyl substances, PFAS.  The school playground sits only a few blocks from the runway of Hilo International Airport. Immediately adjacent to the airport property is the Hilo Army Aviation Support Facility #2 (AASF #2), a Hawaiʻi Army National Guard aviation installation.

The stream flows into Waiākea Pond, a low-elevation coastal waterbody that discharges into Hilo Bay less than a mile away. Because the system lies at or near sea level and is directly connected to the bay, tidal backwater effects likely influence water levels and flow direction within portions of the stream corridor.

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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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