Families in Hawaii complain of sickness two years after Pearl Harbor fuel leak
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By Libby Leonard
May 4, 2024
Military and civilian families told a federal judge this week they continue to be sickened, more than two years after a US navy underground fuel storage facility leaked thousands of gallons of jet fuel into Pearl Harbor’s main drinking water and caused a water crisis in the Pacific.
United States district court judge Leslie Kobayashi heard testimony from nearly a dozen impacted families suing the US government over the leak from the second world war era storage tanks that has resulted in vomiting, diarrhea, rashes and other ailments. Plaintiffs said the illnesses are connected to the tainted water serving the nearly 93,000 residents in and around Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.
Natasha Freeman, who is one of the plaintiffs and lives a mile away from the fuel tanks, testified that all three of her sons experienced vomiting, seizures, lesions and tremors they never had before.
Another witness, US army major Mandy Feindt, testified on behalf of her husband Patrick and the experiences of their children.
“When they failed to warn, they took away my right to protect my children,” she said, referring to the navy waiting several days to advise that the public the drinking water was unsafe, even as her family and others continued to use it.
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