[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: State [of Hawaii] shows ‘disturbing’ fuel contamination plume maps from Red Hill spills

[Lenny Siegel]

State shows ‘disturbing’ fuel contamination plume maps from Red Hill spills

By Mahealani Richardson
HawaiiNewsNow
May 13, 2022 

HONOLULU - Six months after the Navy’s tainted water crisis went public, the state has released new maps showing the underground movement of the contamination.

For the first time, the public is seeing Department of Health maps of the plume of petroleum contamination based on Navy data. It shows the plume before last year’s fuel spills, during the height of the last year’s spill and what it looks like today.

“I was shocked, speechless just to see the extent of the contamination and how severe it was was really quite startling,” said Marti Townsend, former director of the Sierra Club of Hawaii.

“The contamination in the water supply existed before November 2021, it endures now and while the intensity has decreased, it’s clear that the plume is spreading towards the west,” she added.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2022/05/14/state-shows-disturbing-contamination-plume-maps-red-hill-spills/

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Lenny Siegel
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)