Editorial: Toxins, water part of Red Hill cleanup

TL;DR - For Hawaii, seeing March 22 on the calendar as World Water Day, the annual United Nations observance, stirs anxieties as environmental hazards emanate from the Red Hill fuel storage facility. What started in November 2021 with a 20,000-gallon fuel spill that contaminated the Hickam-Pearl Harbor water supply and sickened hundreds — already disastrous — has only intensified with another related water danger: from toxic “forever chemicals” that leached into the Red Hill ground when 1,300 gallons of firefighting aqueous film forming foam (AFFF) spilled last November.

March 17, 2023: Editorial: Toxins, water part of Red Hill cleanup, Honolulu Star-Advertiser

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