[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: U.S. Navy spills at Red Hill underground storage facility, Halawa (HI)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

BWS wants Navy to dig more Red Hill monitoring wells
'I'm really disappointed to find out that these spills have been  
occurring in the past and no one knew about it,' said councilman  
Breene Harimoto

By Andrew Pereira
KITV news (Honolulu, HI)
April 23, 2014


HONOLULU - Recent and past fuel spills from the U.S. Navy's Red Hill  
underground storage facility in Halawa are prompting the Board of  
Water Supply to request additional groundwater monitoring wells near  
the 70-year-old facility.

...



"There need to be additional monitor wells, holes in the ground to  
the water table and ongoing testing on an ongoing basis to determine  
if they're picking up any petroleum hydrocarbon contaminants, either  
to the north or to the south of their facility," Ernest Lau, BWS  
manager and chief engineer, told members of the Honolulu City Council  
Wednesday.



In January the Navy said 27,000 gallons of JP-8 jet fuel had spilled  
from tank No. 5, one of 20 tanks at Red Hill that stand 250 feet tall  
and can hold 12.5 million gallons each of petroleum products. But  
during a legislative briefing last month, the Navy told state  
lawmakers as much as 1.2 million gallons of fuel may have spilled  
from Red Hill since construction ended in 1943. Although some of the  
spills were reported to the Hawaii Department of Health, they were  
largely kept out of the public eye.

...

For the entire story, see
http://www.kitv.com/news/bws-wants-navy-to-dig-more-red-hill- 
monitoring-wells/25633194

See also
http://www.kitv.com/news/epa-administrator-tours-red-hill-fuel-spill- 
site/25505864

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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