Some Hawaii residents, including Native Hawaiians, officials and military families say a report released this week doesn't help restore trust in the Navy.
Lauren Wright, a Navy spouse whose family was sickened by jet fuel in their tap water, shows her supply of bottled water at her home in Honolulu, Friday, July 1, 2022. A Navy investigation says shoddy management and human error caused fuel to leak into Pearl Harbor's tap water last year. The leak poisoned thousands of people and forced military families to evacuate their homes for hotels. – Lauren Wright continues to be leery of the water coming out of the taps in her family's U.S.
blamed the fuel leak and the water crisis that followed on shoddy management and human error. Some Hawaii residents, including Native Hawaiians, officials and military families said the report doesn't help restore trust in the Navy.“I was at least hoping for some sort of remorse for the families and everybody involved in this," Wright said.
It's difficult to trust the Navy partly because Hawaii residents and officials for years have questioned the safety of the giant fuel storage tanks that have sat above an important aquifer since World War II, said Kamanamaikalani Beamer, a former trustee of the Commission on Water Resource Management.
The Department of Defense recognizes the water problems “have damaged trust between the Department and the people of Hawaii, including Native Hawaiians — and it is committed to rebuilding that trust,” Gordon Trowbridge, acting assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, said in a statement.
The tanks continue to pose a threat to Oahu's drinking water while they hold fuel, said Ernest Lau, manager and chief engineer of the water utility.
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