The potential threat to Honolulu's water supply lurking underground

Ernie Lau is going to go down as one of the heros who protected this island from a major disaster. Mahalo for keeping this issue in the spotlight and fighting for clean water.

Why in the world would the Navy build a fuel storage just above the aquifer that supplies water for people. What a stupid decision by the military. The Navy should be sued and pay for this, in addition to cleaning up their mess

My cousins has always had a heart of gold. Ernest never fails to execute diligence in his work.

The U.S. Navy fought numerous State inquiries about this situaion for decades. Trying to keep things from going public.

⛲ Thank you for reporting/explaining about the importance of Red Hill/Navy fuel storage leak and asking all the right questions! 🙏

What PBS 60 Minutes missed due to the smaller coverage was the Navy’s slow and low cooperation with transparency and accountability. I highly encourage 60 minutes to give this story a full spot and look at our publicly available town halls and the behind the scenes meetings, and how long these town halls and meetings went on as the Navy insisted on their slow pace. In this longer coverage, recognizing its only a matter of time due to how Oahu’s ground water is formed rather than not being in our system (while it is in the Navy’s systems and how they’ve shafted their own service members), and the Navy’s record of accountability in Okinawa (they can no longer use their ground water) and recently Tokyo Bay (Re: Navy’s response to local governments for cooperation)… this would call into question not singular poor plannings from the Navy but something systematic.

The military will downplay any risk that's guaranteed. The cleanup of this would be astronomical.

Ernie Lau is a great man!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

This particular tragedy will keep them from talking about all the water that's wasted keeping all the golf courses going which now is causing the fresh water supply to be depleted and replaced by sea water.

Mr. Lau is a saint.

This has been a known issue in Hawaii for over 20 years and Hawaii govt never really raised the alarm. Glad its being addressed now but wonder if its too little too late.

Mahalo Ernie Lau for continuing to Rise for Oahu since 2014!!

I was bred born and raised here on Honolulu Hi. I always felt blessed that we were able to just turn our faucet on and drink it. NEVER had to spend all that money that many mainlanders do on purified water. When i was a keiki (child) i always thought it was so weird that people in the mainland HAD TO buy bottled water when they traveled here to the islands. Now im almost 50y/o sadly i feel its time to start spending that $$ on other sources of drinking water. We all MUST be self sufficient and LEARN how to self purify h20 because as time goes by EVERYTHING will be or already is heavily polluted EVERYWHERE. I never in my wildest dreams ever thought Id have to start drinking h20 elsewhere then from my tap. Sad days are here and much sadder days are upon us.

My company told about this in 2008 that the containment was crumbling while excavation near it.

Hawaii had the cleanest water in the nation up to the 1980s. Between the pineapple and sugar farmers that no longer do business in Hawaii and the US military machine, only one or two wells are clean still (if that many). 😞

This seems like a blunder to me.

Mahalo Nui Loa Ernie !

I told them years ago to get tanker ships and pump the water out.. They said it couldn't be done... Then, two years later, they did just that...🙄

You can't eat golf balls.

What do they mean by there's no evidence. A few years back a family had to go to the emergency room because they were covered in a rash because they were using tap water and it was contaminated with jet fuel!