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Oahu schools affected by Red Hill fuel leak remain cautious of tap water

By Photos by Jamm Aquino and Cindy Ellen Russell

April 10, 2022

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Water taps are back on at Lt. Horace Meek Hickam Elementary School, one of the schools affected by Navy's water contamination crisis.
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Water taps are back on at Lt. Horace Meek Hickam Elementary School, one of the schools affected by Navy's water contamination crisis.
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Water taps are back on at Lt. Horace Meek Hickam Elementary School, one of the schools affected by Navy's water contamination crisis. Pictured is first grade student John Cantelu drinking bottled water after recess.
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Water taps are back on at Lt. Horace Meek Hickam Elementary School, one of the schools affected by Navy's water contamination crisis. Pictured is first grade student Joseph Nunnally drinking bottled water after recess.
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Water taps are back on at Lt. Horace Meek Hickam Elementary School, one of the schools affected by Navy's water contamination crisis. Pictured is Principal Patrick Wetzel giving fist bumps to first grade students after recess.
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Water taps are back on at Lt. Horace Meek Hickam Elementary School, one of the schools affected by Navy's water contamination crisis. Pictured is sixth grade student Max Marks drinking bottled water.
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The taps are back on and clean water has supposedly returned to Holy Family Catholic Academy. Students and teachers are returning to messy art classes and sticky rice and pasta in the lunches. Pictured is art teacher Alina Esche with an art box up-cycled from packaged bottled water.
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The taps are back on and clean water has supposedly returned to Holy Family Catholic Academy. Students and teachers are returning to messy art classes and sticky rice and pasta in the lunches. Pictured is Holy Family Catholic Academy preschool teacher assistant Kiara Akana applying paint to the hand of four-year-old student Alina.
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The taps are back on and clean water has supposedly returned to Holy Family Catholic Academy. Students and teachers are returning to messy art classes and sticky rice and pasta in the lunches. Pictured is Holy Family Catholic Academy preschool student Jack, 4, with paint on his hands.
10/27
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The taps are back on and clean water has supposedly returned to Holy Family Catholic Academy. Students and teachers are returning to messy art classes and sticky rice and pasta in the lunches. Pictured is Holy Family Catholic Academy preschool teacher assistant Kiara Akana applying paint to the hand of four-year-old student Alina.
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The taps are back on and clean water has supposedly returned to Holy Family Catholic Academy. Students and teachers are returning to messy art classes and sticky rice and pasta in the lunches. Pictured is Holy Family Catholic Academy preschoolers Alina and Jack showing off their artwork.
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The taps are back on and clean water has supposedly returned to Holy Family Catholic Academy. Students and teachers are returning to messy art classes and sticky rice and pasta in the lunches. Pictured is the art class sink area which is back to use.
13/27
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The taps are back on and clean water has supposedly returned to Holy Family Catholic Academy. Students and teachers are returning to messy art classes and sticky rice and pasta in the lunches. Pictured are watercolors by the students of art teacher Alina Esche. The top two rows of art were completed prior to the Red Hill water crisis with the bottom row during. Esche conserved bottled water by having her students use one color. “Every color and then you get one color,” said Alicia Esche.
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The taps are back on and clean water has supposedly returned to Holy Family Catholic Academy. Students and teachers are returning to messy art classes and sticky rice and pasta in the lunches. Pictured is a serving of corn chowder prepared for lunch.
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The taps are back on and clean water has supposedly returned to Holy Family Catholic Academy. Students and teachers are returning to messy art classes and sticky rice and pasta in the lunches. Pictured is a cluster of student thermoses outside.
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The taps are back on and clean water has supposedly returned to Holy Family Catholic Academy. Students and teachers are returning to messy art classes and sticky rice and pasta in the lunches.
17/27
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JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO@STARADVERTISER.COM

Principal Komarey Moss shows the bottled water supply inside one of the pre-school classrooms at Red Hill Elementary School on April 7. Red Hill Elementary School, one of the schools affected by Navy's water contamination crisis, is slowly transitioning back to its normal usage for water, though many parents, students, and staff members continue to be wary with using the water coming from the tap.
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Red Hill Elementary School pre-schooler Jacob Torres, 4, washes his hands before lunch.
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Principal Komarey Moss walks past landscaping that had relied on the groundwater at Red Hill Elementary School on April 7.
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Principal Komarey Moss walks out of a room where a water fountain is seen taped off to prohibit usage at Red Hill Elementary School on April 7.
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Students participate in physical activity in the class of substitute teacher Christy Hartwell, right, at Red Hill Elementary School on April 7.
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Principal Komarey Moss stands inside the cafeteria at Red Hill Elementary School on April 7. Bread wasn’t able to be made during the water crisis.
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Red Hill Elementary School principal Komarey Moss stands near pallets of bottled water inside the cafeteria on April 7.
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One of the washing and drinking stations that are back in use outside the cafeteria at Red Hill Elementary School.
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Stacks of bottled water are seen in the cafeteria at Red Hill Elementary School.
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A foodservice worker prepares lunch with freshly made bread at Red Hill Elementary School on April 7. Bread wasn’t able to be made during the water crisis.
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Substitute teacher Christy Hartwell pauses while reflecting on the water crisis at Red Hill Elementary School on April 7, 2022.

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