A grand jury has indicted two civilian workers on charges they caused the Navy to provide the Hawaii Department of Health with false information about jet fuel that spilled from a Pearl Harbor storage facility before it later seeped into drinking water and sickened 6,000 people over Thanksgiving in 2021.

The indictments are the first to result from the fuel spill that angered Hawaii residents, lawmakers and military service members and their families. The military decided to close the aging World War II-era fuel tanks after the spill.

The day after the spill , the Navy issued a press release about the incident and told the 8,400 families living in military housing, "the water remains safe to drink," even though the Navy had not tested the water yet.

A Navy investigation in 2022

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