Must watch 24 minute video on Military Red Hill water pollution
Must watch 24 min. Red Hill video on military pollution of drinking water by VICE News based in New York. Here’s the link. Please share widely.
The whole Red Hill facility on Oahu, which generally holds about 180 million gallons of fuel, sits just 100 feet above a groundwater aquifer that supplies 77% of the island’s total water, according to the Department of Health.
Here on Hawaii Island, we are all downhill, downwind, and downstream of the Pohakuloa TOXIC Area (PTA). I trust you are aware that Pohakuloa spends $2 million a year hauling water to PTA. But in 2013 they drilled 2 water wells and hit water at shallow depths — 700 and 1200 feet below the surface, but they are still not using the water. WHY? What’s in the water?
I’m trying to pry info out on the water. So far all I got is 1 page of fluff from the military. I think there is a serious water potential problem from PTA, not only for PTA wells but possibly the entire island. But probably greater pollution is what’s blowing in the wind from all the toxins used at PTA and re-suspended by every explosion there.
Join the effort to cancel the lease, or at least not renew the lease of State lands at PTA. Submit comments on this by June 7th as part of the PTA EIS process.
PTA needs to be shut down, the bombing stopped, and the land cleaned up and returned to the Hawaiian people. For ways to comment on the record for PTA lease see https://malu-aina.org/?p=8003 Cancel PTA Lease Now!
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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
