[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: "Red Hill [HI] Fuel Leaked Into Well Through A Pipeline Navy Didn’t Know Existed"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Lawmakers: Red Hill Fuel Leaked Into Well Through A Pipeline Navy Didn’t Know Existed
Navy officials didn’t know about the pipeline until someone reviewed the facility’s schematics from 1941, lawmakers who took a tour said they were told.

By Christina Jedra    
Honolulu Civil Beat (HI)
January 24, 2022
   
The jet fuel that contaminated the drinking water of thousands of military families spewed from a Red Hill fuel facility pipeline and went directly into the water supply by way of a drain line that the Navy didn’t even know was there, the Navy told state lawmakers during a tour last week.

Rep. Sonny Ganaden, who was on the tour, said the drain line is a few inches in diameter and looks like a hole in the floor of the tunnel. It was installed to collect naturally occurring moisture and drain it into the Red Hill drinking water well, he said. Except during a Nov. 20 leak, it didn’t collect water. It took in a “direct injection” of fuel, Ganaden said.

“They didn’t know it was there,” he said. “It’s the worst-case scenario.” 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.civilbeat.org/2022/01/lawmakers-red-hill-fuel-leaked-into-well-through-a-pipeline-navy-didnt-know-existed/

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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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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