Posted on Mar 23, 2023
Pearl Harbor Families Drank Antifreeze, Not Just Jet Fuel in Water, Department of Health Memo...
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Military and civilian families who drank and bathed in fuel-tainted water after a fuel spill at the Navy's Red Hill facility in November 2021 contaminated their drinking water, were also exposed to antifreeze, according to an internal Hawaii Department of Health memo that identifies the coolant as potentially posing the biggest health risk.
The compound in the antifreeze, diethylene glycol, is used in aviation fuels to help prevent the formation of ice crystals. It was detected in water samples collected in the weeks after jet fuel spilled from a Red Hill underground pipeline and made its way into the Navy's drinking water system that serves about 93,000 people. The Feb. 2 memo from DOH provides estimates of contaminants that entered the drinking water system, including additives that the Navy put in its jet fuel.
The compound in the antifreeze, diethylene glycol, is used in aviation fuels to help prevent the formation of ice crystals. It was detected in water samples collected in the weeks after jet fuel spilled from a Red Hill underground pipeline and made its way into the Navy's drinking water system that serves about 93,000 people. The Feb. 2 memo from DOH provides estimates of contaminants that entered the drinking water system, including additives that the Navy put in its jet fuel.
Pearl Harbor Families Drank Antifreeze, Not Just Jet Fuel in Water, Department of Health Memo...
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Lt Col Charlie Brown it has caused years of sickness. And there may be an option for survivors to get some benefits before their case was processed.
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Ugh... Not to sound unsympathetic, but I am not looking forward to a potential round of Camp Lejune water contamination style flood of emails for something I was nowhere close to when it occurred.
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Maj Kevin "Mac" McLaughlin
I was never there and yet I'm still getting the spam. Closest I've been was attending East Carolina University where the Lejune Marines loved to come over and party with us.
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Maj Kim Patterson
Maj Kevin "Mac" McLaughlin i rarely get that stuff. No tv, no radio and flyers go straight to the trash
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Maj Kevin "Mac" McLaughlin
Maj Kim Patterson Lucky you. I’ll also add that some of it is very likely phishing too meant to prey on individuals who were exposed.
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