Is the water safe to drink? Mixed messaging continues between Navy and DOH over sample test results

TL;DR - The Navy says the “highly accurate test results” show no contamination above the Hawaii State Department of Health (DOH) EAL. The findings, however, contradict what the DOH reported last week.

According to the DOH, samples collected from the Navy’s Red Hill drinking water shaft tested positive for high levels of gasoline and diesel range hydrocarbons, with petroleum levels 350 times the limit for safe drinking water. Click here to read the lab results from the Navy’s Red Hill shaft.

“If you recall just a few weeks ago as people were getting sick, breaking out into rashes, vomiting, the Navy, at the same time were saying that their tests did not indicate any contamination,” said Wayne Tanaka, director of the Sierra Club of Hawaii.

December 16, 2021: Is the water safe to drink? Mixed messaging continues between Navy and DOH over sample test results, KHON2