[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: "Navy gets final order from Hawaii Health Department: Close Red Hill fuel facility"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy gets final order from Hawaii Health Department: Close Red Hill fuel facility

BY WYATT OLSON
STARS AND STRIPES 
JANUARY 4, 2022

FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii — The Hawaii Department of Health on Monday gave final approval to an emergency order to close the Navy’s Red Hill underground fuel storage facility on Oahu that is linked to contaminated water affecting thousands living in military communities.

“Today’s decision affirms DOH’s actions to safeguard the drinking water that we share as a community,” Kathleen Ho, deputy director of environmental health, said in a news release.

Ho ordered the facility closed Dec. 6, about a week after people living on and near Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam began complaining of foul-smelling tap water that carried an oily sheen. 

The Navy traced the problem to petroleum contamination in one of the three wells used in its water distribution system.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2022-01-03/hawaii-navy-red-hill-fuel-storage-water-contamination-4173753.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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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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