The Hawaii Department of Health is ordering the Navy to take immediate action to address contaminated drinking water at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, an issue that has forced more than 700 people from their homes.
The Navy previously said it shut down its Red Hill well on November 28 and that families living on base reported symptoms including nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, headaches and skin-related concerns.The Navy's Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility, built during World War II, is located 100 feet above the Red Hill aquifer, which supplies drinking water to the base and other areas of Hawaii. It can store up to 250 million gallons of fuel, according to the Navy.
"Because what we don't want to do is to move people back into their homes to restore service prematurely before we have the utmost confidence in that system, so that we're not going through this again," he said. Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro visited the storage facility Monday and said the Navy is getting closer to determining the root cause of the water contamination.
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