Around-the-clock child care centers offer peace of mind for troops who work odd hours or are deployed. But the military says it has no plans to add more.
Thousands of people have been treated for physical ailments and thousands of military families are staying in hotels because of the leak at the facility.
The crisis has affected more than 9,000 Navy, Army and Air Force households at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam and the Army’s Aliamanu Military Reservation and Red Hill communities, which are on the Navy water system.
The Navy is contesting an order by the state Department of Health to suspend Red Hill storage facility’s operations and empty the underground tanks after tests in recent weeks detected petroleum in the Navy’s tap water system.