[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: Navy's Red Hill Bulk Storage Facility, O'ahu, HI

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Forum for future of Red Hill fuel tanks
As a new year is about to begin, questions about an old problem on O'ahu remain unanswered.    Nearly 5 years after a huge fuel leak at the Red Hill Bulk Storage Facility, a forum will be held so people can get answers about preventing future leaks while protecting our water supply. 

by Paul Drewes
KITV TV-4 News (HI)
December 25, 2018

As a new year is about to begin, questions about an old problem on O'ahu remain unanswered.
  
Nearly 5 years after a huge fuel leak at the Red Hill Bulk Storage Facility, a forum will be held so people can get answers about preventing future leaks while protecting our water supply.

In Red Hill, there are 20 steel lined tanks. Each one is 250 feet tall, 100 feet in diameter, enclosed with concrete and 75 years old. 
Earlier this year the Navy found the liner in the one tank it tested, had thinned considerably from its original quarter inch thickness.

"They are deteriorating. At some parts they may be as thick as a nickel, or in worst case it could be as thin as a dime. And these tanks are holding 12.5 million gallons of petroleum in each tank," said Melody Aduja, with the Hawaii Democratic Party.
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For the entire story, see
https://www.kitv.com/story/39694707/forum-for-future-of-red-hill-fuel-tanks

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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