The U.S. Navy has confirmed the existence of petroleum products in a well water sample taken near Hawaii's Pearl Harbor military base.
describes as "a large family of several hundred chemical compounds that are derived from crude oil." A separate test also confirmed petroleum hydrocarbon vapors.on Wednesday that a sample from Red Hill Elementary School, which was collected Tuesday, came back positive for a petroleum product in a preliminary test result. The samples were then sent to Eurofins Scientific in California for further analysis.
It is not clear exactly what kind of petroleum products were detected or how they got into the system. bottled water and will soon have portable showers available for base residents. Certain authorized residents affected by the water crisis can also go to hotels and will be reimbursed by the government, military officials said during a press conference. " paralyzed in finding a solution to this problem," Senator Glenn Wakai said, according to a tweet from the Hawaii State Senate. "Last night they were saying this is a natural disaster and that's how we should look at this.
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