Water samples have been sent for analysis to a laboratory in California to determine what type of contamination is in the water. Three wells and water shafts serve the 93,000 military and family members around Pearl Harbor. Residents yelled at military briefers that the State of Hawai'i Department of Health was warning resident not to drink or use the water. The Navy has acknowledged that another pipeline fuel leak of more than 1,600 gallons of fuel had occurred on May 6 due to human error and that some of the fuel likely "reached the environment."Īll hell broke loose at four military community town hall meetings on Novemwhen the Navy told housing residents that they should flush the water out of home pipes, the smell and fuel sheen would go away and they could use the water. Foster Village community members stated that they were smelling fuel after the Novemrelease of 14,000 gallons of water and fuel from a fire suppression drain line a quarter-mile downhill from the fuel tank farm. The Navy command was slow to alert the community while the State of Hawai'i quickly issued a notice not to drink the water. The Navy's huge jet fuel tank complex is only 100 feet above Honolulu's water supply and has been leaking with regularity. Navy's 80-year-old leaking 20 jet fuel tanks at Red Hill each tank 20 stories tall and holding a total of 225 million gallons of jet fuel came to a head over the weekend with Navy families around the large Pearl Harbor Naval Base being sickened by fuel in their home tap water. The long citizen protest underscoring the dangers from the U.S.
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