The locals in Hawaii are angry at the US military for dumping wastewater into the harbor.
According to the Honolulu Civil Beat, the famous harbor is now an Environmental Protection Agency-identified Superfund site because of a broken Naval wastewater line.
The Civil Beat states that this isn't the first time the US military has dumped sewage into the ocean. The Navy was fined $8.7 million by the state at the end of September because of its messed up wastewater treatment facility.
Christine Jedra, the Civil Beat reporter who wrote the wastewater story, said that the Navy was fined $9 million by the health department in Hawaii.
According to a statement provided to the Civil Beat by the Navy, the sewage that leaked into the harbor was unrecoverable and would be tested for fecal coliform.
Between the wastewater pollution and the military's jet fuel leaks that contaminated drinking water on Oahu, Hawaiians want the military to either clean up its act or get off.
The 50th state has suffered a lot due to the presence of the US military since long before it became part of the United States in the late 1950's.
The Navy has released another 1000 gallons of raw sewage into Pearl Harbor.
The water system in Jackson has effectively collapsed.
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