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“Families on the Navy water system say there is new contamination in their tap water. They say samples they sent to labs have come back with traces of forever chemicals known as PFAS.
A number of environmental groups called a news conference Wednesday to talk about the results.
Marti Townsend is the chair of the Red Hill Community Representation Initiative, a group established in 2023 to allow selected community members to communicate directly with the military and the Environmental Protection Agency about Red Hill.
‘These two samples came from Hickam because these are military dependents who are living on base, and their water lines overlap with fuel lines. And they’re basically living in a horrible toxic soup between the jet fuel that was released and mixed with chlorine to make toxic chemicals, and the PFAS, all of which you know affect your immune system,’ said Townsend, who was previously the director of the Sierra Club of Hawaiʻi.” …