HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The state is moving forward on a new drinking water well for Kunia Village, three years after the health department found toxins in the water.

The former Del Monte plantation camp will receive a new well through a project expected to cost $7.75 million. The project was selected to receive federal funding, and the 1,100-plus-foot well could be completed in 2027.

In late 2022, the state health department discovered high levels of PFAS, potentially cancer-causing forever chemicals, in Kunia Village’s well #3 serving roughly 650 people. Toxins were then detected in well #4.

Families drank bottled water for three months until a treatment system was installed.

“They are basically laborers and yet they are subjected to this substandard type of water and it didn’t se

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