A U.S. Navy investigation looked at how fuel from a tank farm leaked into a water well.
Rear Adm. John Korka, Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command , and Chief of Civil Engineers, leads Navy and civilian water quality recovery experts through the tunnels of the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility, near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Military medical teams examined some 6,000 people for nausea, headaches, rashes and other symptoms. The military moved about 4,000 mostly military families into hotels for months while they waited for their water to be safe again.
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