[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: Honolulu, HI "Officials: Navy Slow To Address Red Hill’s Threat to Drinking Water"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Officials: Navy Slow To Address Red Hill’s Threat to Drinking Water
Five months after a reported 27,000-gallon fuel leak, the Navy still  
hasn't drilled wells to test for water contamination, although it  
just awarded contracts for two of them.

By Sophie Cocke
Honolulu Civil Beat (HI)
June 2, 2014·

The Navy has awarded a contract to drill monitoring wells near its  
Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage Facility to gauge whether leaked  
fuel may be migrating toward the county’s drinking water supply.

But the work on the two wells likely won’t begin until the end of the  
summer, at the earliest, according to Navy spokesman Tom Clements, a  
timeline that is frustrating the head of Honolulu’s Board of Water  
Supply.

In January, some 27,000 gallons of jet fuel may have leaked from the  
facility. That possibility, and dozens of past leaks dating back to  
the 1940s that were only recently made public, have raised concerns  
that fuel threatens aquifers that supply one-quarter of Oahu’s  
drinking water.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.civilbeat.com/2014/06/officials-navy-slow-address-red- 
hills-threat-drinking-water/

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Lenny Siegel
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