One year after Navy poisons water, it does it again

TL;DR - On the First Anniversary of the Massive Jet Fuel Leak from Red Hill, 103 million gallons of Jet fuel Remain in the Underground Tanks Only 100 Feet Above Honolulu’s Aquifer, Sickened Military and Civilian Families Poisoned by the Navy’s Jet Fuel Still have Difficulties Obtaining Medical Help.

One can hardly finish an article about Hawaii’s Red Hill jet fuel disaster before another dangerous incident happens.  While I was completing an article concerning the first anniversary of the November 2021 massive jet fuel leak of over 19,000 gallons of jet fuel into the drinking water well that served 93,000 military and civilian families, on November 29, 2022, at least 1,300 gallons of the extremely toxic fire suppressant concentrate known as Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF) leaked out of an “air release valve” installed by the contractor Kinetix onto the tunnel floor of the Red Hill Underground Jet Fuel Storage Tanks complex entrance and flowed 40 feet out of the tunnel into the soil.

December 10, 2022: One year after Navy poisons water, it does it again, Popular Resistance

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