(AP) — Hawaiʻi’s U.S. Reps. Ed Case and  Kaiali‘i Kahele held a rally Friday to call for the shutdown of the U.S. Navy’s Red Hill fuel storage facility near Pearl Harbor. Late last year jet fuel leaked into drinking water and showed up in military family homes. Many families became ill or developed rashes after bathing in and drinking the water. The military says the underground fuel storage facility is vital to national security. But Kahele and Case said Congress should mandate that the underground fuel facility be closed permanently. he facility sits about 100 feet above a shared aquifer that provides about 20 percent of Honolulu’s drinking water.

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