OAHU (KITV)- It's been ONE YEAR since a whistleblower came forward and exposed a fuel leak that contaminated water in parts of Oahu.
Song rang out through the air of what looked like a protest outside the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center. The translation of the words are “water is life”. That means a lot to those there who were speaking out against how fuel has leaked out of the Navy's Red Hill Fuel storage facility into the water supply.
“If you don't change the whole system it's going to happen again and again,” said local resident Gina Hara.
As well as a protest, the demonstration was also the one-year-anniversary celebration of how the first whistleblower brought this situation to light. Making it clear the water wasn't pure. “He was trying to warn everyone. He was trying to say to look at the soldiers, men and women. That there was something wrong with this facility,” said local resident Davie-Ann.
She says that revelation has brought forth a stream of information involving multiple fuel leaks from the Red Hill storage facility into the water. After fighting it, the Navy set a defueling plan set to finish July 2024. But the problems are not over. There's still an estimated 100 million gallons of fuel in underground tanks.
“Out of 8 homes my was screened as having a strong possibility of low levels of JP jet fuel. So, we're still living on water bottles. We're filling up 3-gallon to 5-gallon jugs,” said Davie-Ann.
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