The Navy had shut down the Red Hill well, which draws on the Moanalua-Waimalu aquifer located 100 feet below the Navy’s fuel storage tanks on the island of Oahu, out of an “abundance of caution” on Sunday, a spokesperson told the Associated Press. It is not clear exactly what kind of petroleum products were detected or how they got into the system. It added that it will work with the state’s department of health to update guidance for local residents and service members. “Now with multiple indications that the source has been identified and isolated, the Navy is developing a plan to restore the potable water system to EPA standards, identify how this contaminant got in the well, and fix the well,” the Navy said Friday. It is not clear whether this sample was the one that the Navy confirmed was positive on Friday. The samples were then sent to Eurofins Scientific in California for further analysis. Hawaii’s Department of Health said on Wednesday that a sample from Red Hill Elementary School, which was collected Tuesday, came back positive for a petroleum product in a preliminary test result. Thirteen tests came back negative, but one sample from the Navy’s Red Hill well came back positive for petroleum hydrocarbons, which the EPA describes as “a large family of several hundred chemical compounds that are derived from crude oil.” A separate test also confirmed petroleum hydrocarbon vapors. The well, which is connected to the Navy’s water system, has been closed since Sunday while officials investigated reports of tap water smelling like fuel.Īccording to a Friday statement from the Navy, it collected 14 water samples from different parts of the water system on Monday. Navy has confirmed the existence of petroleum products in a well water sample taken near Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor military base.
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