Honolulu utility shuts well to prevent fuel contamination
Associated PressHONOLULU — Amid a continuing crisis over fuel contaminating the Navy’s tap water at Pearl Harbor, Honolulu’s water utility said Friday it shut off one of its wells so it doesn’t taint its own supply with petroleum from an underground aquifer it shares with the military. Ernie Lau, the Board of Water Supply’s chief engineer, said he’s worried the utility could pull contaminated water through the porous lava rock that forms the aquifer, and deliver it to its customers. To protect Oahu’s water, Lau urged the Navy to remove the risk posed by the Red Hill Fuel Storage Facility. “When people are smelling fuel in their water, this is totally abnormal, totally unacceptable,” said Hirono, a Democrat who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee’s subcommittee on seapower.
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