We have 20 underground fuel tanks built in 1940s that are leaking jet fuel into our drinking water in Honolulu. Navy is proposing a 20 year plan to fix tanks. These tanks need to be taken off line today.
Why is this important?
As a cancer survivor of a rare type of Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, I'm concerned about 187 million gallons of jet fuel sitting 100 feet above our drinking water supply. One tank failed in January 2014, and leaked 27,000 gallons of fuel into the groundwater. It cannot be cleaned up. These aged, colossal tanks, each the size of a football field in height, cannot be repaired and need to be shut down immediately.
