[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: Hawai'i "says readings indicate latest Red Hill fuel spill not contained; Navy claims data is inaccurate"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

State says readings indicate latest Red Hill fuel spill not contained; Navy claims data is inaccurate

By Sophie Cocke 
Honolulu Star-Advertiser (HI) 
May 25, 2021

In the days after approximately 1,000 gallons of jet fuel leaked from a pipe at the Navy’s Red Hill underground fuel farm on May 6, soil vapor levels indicating fuel contamination spiked well above averages, according to data released by the Hawaii Department of Health on Monday. The elevated soil vapor levels are raising concerns that not all of the leaked fuel was recovered, as the Navy has suggested.

Indeed, Health Department officials said last week that the soil vapor data, which at the time they were declining to release publicly, indicated fuel had entered the subsurface.

“The Navy’s claim is pure shibai,” said Hawaii Sierra Club attorney David Kimo Frankel in a press release on the soil vapor data. “The Navy’s own data proves that its leak was not properly contained. The leak migrated from the facility and reached the subsurface. The Navy cannot be trusted with our groundwater.”

In response, a Navy spokeswoman said that the soil vapor data is likely inaccurate and is “undergoing validation.” 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2021/05/25/breaking-news/state-says-readings-indicate-latest-red-hill-fuel-spill-not-contained-navy-claims-data-is-inaccurate/

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Lenny Siegel
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