[CPEO-MEF] FUEL, HEALTH: "Study tentatively links migraines to Navy’s fuel-tainted tap water in Hawaii"

[Lenny Siegel]

Study tentatively links migraines to Navy’s fuel-tainted tap water in Hawaii 

By WYATT OLSON 
STARS AND STRIPES 
February 20, 2025

Individuals exposed to jet-fuel tainted tap water near Pearl Harbor in late 2021 were more likely to experience new migraines and esophagus inflammation than others living nearby but not exposed to the water, according to a Defense Department study released last month. 

The study examined conditions reported to Defense Health Agency Public Health following JP-5 jet fuel contamination in November 2021 of the Navy’s water distribution system that supplied military communities on and near Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. It was completed last summer but not made public for six months. 

The fuel was traced to the World War II-era Red Hill underground fuel storage facility, which was ordered emptied and permanently closed four months after the spill. 

The study compared 44,373 individuals exposed to the tainted water with 59,499 “DoD-affiliated individuals living on Oahu at the time of the Red Hill fuel release” who were not exposed.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2025-02-20/navy-jet-fuel-water-migraines-16891349.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel at cpeo.org
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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)