Join the weekly Friday Hilo Peace Vigil
Join the Weekly Friday Peace Vigil in Hilo 3:30-5 PM at the downtown Hilo Post Office, across from Kalakaua Park, The Letter below was published in the Hawaii Tribune-Herald and West Hawaii Today on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024
Red Flag Fire Warning Oct. 16, 2024, includes Pohakuloa in the center of Hawaii Island
The 133,000-acre Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA) in the center of Hawaii Island is under Red Flag warning, yet troops from 10 nations have been doing war training there for several weeks. The latest draft EIS released by PTA said 892 wildfires have been started at PTA since 1975. One in 2022, a year before the deadly Lahaina fire, burned over 17,000 acres, including over 12,000 acres off the base in Endangered Species Habitat.
PTA is Hawaii’s Lahaina fire in the making. Millions of live rounds are fired annually at Pohakuloa, an area contaminated with many military toxins, including Depleted Uranium Radiation from 80 years of bombing and shelling. These toxins blow in the strong winds that frequent the area and can be re-suspended by high explosives and in the smoke from fires at Pohakuloa. PTA at 6500 feet elevation is located above the island’s main aquifer. Is PTA also Hawaii Island’s Red Hill water contamination in the process? PTA spends millions of dollars a year hauling water to the base. Yet they drilled 2 wells on base more than 10 years ago and hit water at a shallow depth — 750 feet and 1200 feet below the surface, but they are still not using the water from those wells. How come? What’s in the water below PTA?
News Media and Elected Officials: Raise questions about the ELEPHANT in the center of Hawaii Island — The Pohakuloa TOXIC Area (PTA)!
Jim Albertini
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Jim Albertini Malu ‘Aina Center For Non-violent Education & Action P.O. Box 489 Ola’a (Kurtistown) Hawai’i 96760
Phone 808-966-7622 Email ja@malu-aina.org Visit us on the web at www.malu-aina.org
