lizerdk

lizerdk t1_iycddn2 wrote

For some context, Red Hill stores fuel for Pearl Harbor. The Navy has been warned for years that the storage tanks, which are below ground and IMMENSE, were a leak hazard. The navy denied any problem until people started getting sick and jet fuel was found in the drinking water supply. One well was taken offline to prevent contam from spreading through the rest of the aquifer. All of this on Oahu, the most populated island in Hawaii, which has already had water shortages & is looking at more major shortages in the future.

And now this. The Navy is really blowing it

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