The Navy only told people to stop drinking their tap water after the state Department of Health stepped in. She recalled how Navy leaders initially told Pearl Harbor water users their water was safe to drink after the November spill.
She spends $70 to $100 a month to have water delivered to their home for drinking. Her family has spent $3,000 of their own money to install filters on all the faucets in the house so they can bathe, brush their teeth and wash their dishes. He was also scheduled to meet with the commander of a joint task force in charge of draining fuel from the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility so it can be shut down.Ĭheri Burness, who lives in Navy housing, won’t drink the tap water in the house she shares with her sailor husband and their two teenage children because she doesn’t believe that it’s safe 10 months after the spill.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin visited Hawai‘i this week amid lingering community frustration and distrust after jet fuel from a military storage facility last year spilled into Pearl Harbor’s drinking water, poisoned thousands of military families and threatened the purity of Honolulu’s water supply.Īustin was in Hawai‘i to meet with his counterparts from several Indo-Pacific region allies.
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