[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: "Navy wants to release millions of gallons of treated water a day from tainted well into Halawa Stream"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy wants to release millions of gallons of treated water a day from tainted well into Halawa Stream

By Mahealani Richardson
Hawaii News Now
January 7, 2022 

HONOLULU - There are new concerns about the Navy’s plan to release millions of gallons of treated water from its contaminated Red Hill fuel facility. into Halawa Stream.

The Navy told lawmakers Thursday and then the state’s Commission on Water Resource Management Friday about its plan to filter millions of gallons of water from the Red Hill shaft each day.

The treated water would then be released into the stream.

During Thursday’s tour of the Red Hill shaft, U.S. Rep. Kai Kahele and other lawmakers saw a construction zone with eight granular activated carbon filters and the Navy’s plan to “remediate the Red Hill well to protect the aquifer.”

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For the entire article, see
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2022/01/08/navy-seeks-release-millions-gallons-treated-water-tainted-red-hill-well-into-halawa-stream/

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