[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: "Three More Monitoring Wells To Be Built Near Red Hill Fuel Spill Site" (HI)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Three More Monitoring Wells To Be Built Near Red Hill Fuel Spill Site
The wells will be built on U.S. Navy and Honolulu Board of Water Supply land near where 27,000 gallons of fuel spilled.

By Courtney Teague  
Honolulu Civil Beat (HI)  
June 27, 2016


Three monitoring wells will be built near where 27,000 gallons of fuel spilled from the U.S. Navy’s Red Hill fuel storage tanks in January 2014.

Red Hill is the largest underground fuel storage facility in the nation with a capacity of 250 million gallons. The 2014 spill came dangerously close to an aquifer used for Oahu’s drinking water, and there are already 10 monitoring wells in the area. 

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Hawaii Department of Health, the U.S. Navy and the Defense Logistics Agency rolled out a 20-year plan to fix the tanks in December 2015. After the work plan was released, the Honolulu Board of Water Supply responded with 17 pages of criticism, comments and recommendations. The board said parts of the draft were ambiguous and additional testing and studies needed to be completed in the area.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.civilbeat.org/2016/06/three-more-monitoring-wells-to-be-built-near-red-hill-fuel-spill-site/

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Lenny Siegel
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