In coordination with EPA and DOH, the Navy collected ingesting water samples for on-island Fast Response Testing (RRT) and Ingesting Water Lengthy-Time period Monitoring (LTM) water samples for off-island testing. All outcomes obtained thus far meet federal and state protected ingesting water requirements.
The DOH supplied the Navy with info for six residents who contacted EPA about issues with their ingesting water. The Navy collected ingesting water samples for RRT at 5 of the six properties and LTM samples at 4 of the six properties. The Navy is awaiting resident response for scheduling availability of a sixth RRT pattern and two further LTM samples.
The RRT checks didn’t detect Complete Petroleum Hydrocarbons (TPH) at any of the 5 properties.
For the LTM testing, one house confirmed no detection of TPH within the ingesting water, whereas low ranges of TPH had been detected within the samples from the opposite three properties. All detections, nonetheless, had been effectively under the incident-specific parameter (ISP) established by EPA and DOH as a part of the accepted LTM Plan. The Navy supplied the outcomes to the residents, EPA and DOH Oct. 27.
TPH will be present in any petroleum-based merchandise together with oils from plumbing repairs, family, organic and industrial merchandise corresponding to mothballs, cooking oils, lotions, lubricants, greases, and so on.
Though LTM samples taken from three of the 4 properties present low ranges of TPH, all outcomes had been under the regulator-established ISP and don’t point out the presence of JP-5 within the JBPHH ingesting water distribution system. When there’s a detection of TPH, a chromatographic comparability, or fingerprint evaluation, is carried out by an EPA-certified laboratory to find out if JP-5 is current within the pattern. JP-5 has not been detected in these samples. For the reason that begin of the Navy’s LTM program in March 2022, fingerprint analyses haven’t discovered proof of JP-5 within the JBPHH ingesting water distribution system.
The Navy continues to check residential and non-residential buildings on the JBPHH ingesting water distribution system in keeping with the LTM plan that was created and accepted by the Interagency Ingesting Water System Crew (IDWST), composed of representatives from the DOH, EPA, Navy and Army. Below the interagency-approved LTM plan, the Navy water system is in a two-year, regulated interval of LTM that started in March 2022 and is scheduled to finish in March 2024. The water within the Navy’s system comes from the Waiawa shaft, which is roughly 6 miles from Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam. The Navy obtained validated check outcomes of non-detect of TPH for a pattern taken on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023.
The Navy continues to conduct periodic outreach occasions throughout JBPHH to tell customers and residents served by the JBPHH water distribution system on the method and success of the LTM program. Residents and customers on the JBPHH water distribution system are inspired to report ingesting water issues to:
– Navy Fast Response Crew – 808-449-1979.
– DOH Protected Ingesting Water Department – 808-586-4258 or SDWB@doh.hawaii.gov;
– EPA Desk Line – 415-947-4406
For extra info on these actions, go to the information part of http://www.navy.mil/jointbasewater.
Further info on the Navy’s LTM program could also be discovered at http://jbphh-safewaters.org.
