12-03-2016, 06:42 AM
Red Hill water contamination
During WWII the mountains ringing Hickam & Pearl Harbor on Oahu were excavated and used as fuel and munitions storage facilities. (Hopefully planners built the deep caverns into separate mountains designated for fuel and another for munitions, or at least divided the two into separate areas.) Those storage facilities are still in existence.
Closer to home, there are thousands of holes dug into the ground all over Hawaii Island, directly over the water table, and every day millions of gallons of contaminated water runs into them and leaks straight into our water supply through cracks, fissures, tubes, and fractures in the lava.
The water is filled with bacterial, viral, and other waste debris from human residents, environmentally dangerous household products, and toxic chemicals such as bleach.
Take a trip to the grocery store, Walmart, Target, or Home Depot. Look at the aisles and aisles of "cleaning" products in each store. Read a few of their labels. Do you see anything in small print that reads: "WARNING?"
And yet 200,000 people on this island pour these items literally straight into the earth and water table, with only a brief side trip through the sink, shower, and toilet.
This isn't a system breakdown that might occur under unexpected circumstances. Our Hawaiian leakage takes place 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, every year. Intentionally. Where's the outrage?
During WWII the mountains ringing Hickam & Pearl Harbor on Oahu were excavated and used as fuel and munitions storage facilities. (Hopefully planners built the deep caverns into separate mountains designated for fuel and another for munitions, or at least divided the two into separate areas.) Those storage facilities are still in existence.
Closer to home, there are thousands of holes dug into the ground all over Hawaii Island, directly over the water table, and every day millions of gallons of contaminated water runs into them and leaks straight into our water supply through cracks, fissures, tubes, and fractures in the lava.
The water is filled with bacterial, viral, and other waste debris from human residents, environmentally dangerous household products, and toxic chemicals such as bleach.
Take a trip to the grocery store, Walmart, Target, or Home Depot. Look at the aisles and aisles of "cleaning" products in each store. Read a few of their labels. Do you see anything in small print that reads: "WARNING?"
And yet 200,000 people on this island pour these items literally straight into the earth and water table, with only a brief side trip through the sink, shower, and toilet.
This isn't a system breakdown that might occur under unexpected circumstances. Our Hawaiian leakage takes place 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, every year. Intentionally. Where's the outrage?
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