Thousands Poisoned At Pearl Harbor After Multiple Errors Made At U.S. Navy Refueling Facility: Report

The U.S. Navy is planning to shut down a key fuel storage facility at Pearl Harbor after an investigation found that poor management and numerous errors at the facility resulted in a fuel leak into the tap water system that poisoned thousands of people last year.

“The investigation is the first detailed account of how jet fuel from the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility, a massive World War II-era military-run tank farm in the hills above Pearl Harbor, leaked into a well that supplied water to housing and offices in and around the sprawling base,” the Associated Press reported. “Some 6,000 people suffered nausea, headaches, rashes and other symptoms.”