State shows ‘disturbing’ fuel contamination plume maps from Red Hill spills

TL;DR - Six months after the Navy’s tainted water crisis went public, the state has released new maps showing the underground movement of the contamination.

For the first time, the public is seeing Department of Health maps of the plume of petroleum contamination based on Navy data. It shows the plume before last year’s fuel spills, during the height of the last year’s spill and what it looks like today.

“I was shocked, speechless just to see the extent of the contamination and how severe it was was really quite startling,” said Marti Townsend, former director of the Sierra Club of Hawaii.

May 13, 2022: State shows ‘disturbing’ fuel contamination plume maps from Red Hill spills, Hawaiʻi News Now