[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: "Navy Balks at Fuel Tank Advice, " Red Hill Storage Facility (HI)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy Balks at Fuel Tank Advice

by Gordon Y.K. Pang
Honolulu Star-Advertiser /Military.com
December 12, 2014

Federal, state and city officials on a task force asked to evaluate  
the effects of the January fuel leak at the Navy's Red Hill Fuel  
Storage Facility recommended Thursday that the giant tanks be double- 
lined to prevent groundwater contamination.

But the Navy continues to have serious objections to that approach.

"I'm not so sure that the best solution is some type of secondary  
containment," said Navy Capt. Mike Williamson, commanding officer of  
the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Hawaii and regional engineer  
Hawaii.

While a double-lining may be one possible remedy, it is "not without  
flaw," he said. "We agree that further study is warranted."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/12/12/navy-balks-at-fuel-tank- 
advice.html

--

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

_______________________________________________
Military mailing list
Military@lists.cpeo.org
http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org