[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: Red Hill (HI) timeline

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Confused about the timeline for the Red Hill fuel storage facility and contaminated water? Read this.

By Sophia McCullough
Hawaii Public Radio 
December 21, 2021

Coming up to the end of 2021, there's been a lot of news and information about water contamination from a leak at the Navy's Red Hill fuel storage facility on Oʻahu. While cleanup efforts continue, the history and issues surrounding Red Hill began long before. These are the recent developments.

The Red Hill facility, which was constructed in the early 1940s, consists of 20 tanks mined inside a volcanic ridge near Pearl Harbor. Each tank measures 100 feet in diameter and 250 feet high — the height of a 20-story building, or Aloha Tower.

They can hold up to 250 million gallons of fuel, or 12.5 million gallons each. Fuel travels 2.5 miles via pipelines to ships and planes waiting at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. 

Hundreds of thousands of Oʻahu residents — civilian and military — rely on drinking water from an aquifer that sits 100 feet below the fuel storage facility. The Navy's water system serves some 93,000 residents

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For the entire article, see
https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2021-12-21/confused-about-the-timeline-for-the-red-hill-fuel-storage-facility-and-contaminated-water-read-this

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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