A high-level Army official told people at a special meeting of the Wai'anae Neighborhood Board last night that thousands of tons of chemical munitions dumped at two locations off O'ahu during and immediately after World War II "do not currently pose an immediate threat to the health and safety" of the people of Hawai'i.

The official also said the military does not think the munitions should be retrieved.
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Davis said the purpose of the meeting was to update the community on what the military had learned during "months of exhaustive research" through more than a half-million pages of archival pages, and numerous military studies on the effects of seawater on the chemical munitions.