The National Defense Authorization Act includes at least $1.7 billion for military projects in Hawaii as well as several provisions aimed at repairing relationships with the local community.
A provision in the proposed National Defense Authorization Act would require the federal government to assess health impacts on military families exposed to tap water contaminated by jet fuel from the Navy’s Red Hill storage facility in Hawaii.
In the two years since the Navy’s Red Hill fuel spill contaminated water and sickened hundreds, the state and Honolulu Board of Water Supply (BWS) have publicly maintained a united front, as they should, to champion the safety and availability of water for Oahu users.