Navy Water Contamination Crisis Highlights Flaws In Early Warning System

TL;DR - It was early November, weeks before the Navy revealed the Pearl Harbor-area drinking water was contaminated with jet fuel, and Meredith Wilson wasn’t feeling well.

Wilson, the wife of an Air Force musician, was suffering from dizziness and disorientation that made her feel like she was outside of her own body. She’d experienced vertigo before, but not like this. When she visited a military doctor on Nov. 2, the physician told her something that has been burned into her memory. 

“You’re the fifth female I’ve seen in the past two weeks with vertigo symptoms,” she recalls the doctor saying. “Could be something environmental.”

February 2, 2022: Navy Water Contamination Crisis Highlights Flaws In Early Warning System, Honolulu Civil Beat