Jet Fuel Spills in Hawaii: The Bitter story
https://www.lezdotechmed.com/blog/personal-injury/jet-fuel-spills-in-hawaii/ Four families who resided on a military installation in Hawaii are suing the Navy, alleging that drinking water tainted by two separate jet fuel spills caused them to become ill. The Navy's Red Hill jet fuel storage facility, which has a capacity of 175 million gallons, is to blame. Let's turn the page to 1943, when the Red Hill Gasoline Storage Facility was built, the year that jet fuel spills made national news. From 1940 to 1943, the facility was built as a wartime undertaking during the Second World War. The gasoline storage facility can contain 250 million gallons of fuel in total. There are 20 steel-lined underground storage tanks that can hold a combined total of 12.5 million gallons of jet fuel. Two quiet jet fuel spills occurred in Hawaii in May and November of 2021, causing JP-5, the jet fuel propellant, to seep and damage Oahu's water supply. The fuel line "violently...