For the first time since 1990, the state agency that provides care to adults diagnosed with a serious mental illness has no staff on Lanai. The problem is a microcosm of a statewide mental health care crisis.
The latest headache over potable water comes just as the base had begun to recover and move on from fuel spills at the Red Hill storage depot that contaminated tap water in the very same homes.
The Hawaii Department of Health cleared the Department of Defense to defuel three pipelines, one of the beginning phases in the DoD’s plan to remove all fuel from from the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility. The health department announced that it would conditionally approve the pipeline defueling phase of the DOD’s plan on Friday, […]