[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: Video of Red Hill (HI) leak

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

WATCH: Fuel Spewed ‘Full Blast’ Into Red Hill Tunnel In November
New video of the leak reveals new details about what happened as a water contamination crisis unfolded. 

BY CHRISTINA JEDRA  
Honolulu Civil Beat (HI)
JULY 5, 2022

As fuel rained down, creating a virtual river on the concrete floor of a Red Hill facility tunnel in November, the worker who accidentally triggered the leak found himself powerless to stop it.

So he took photos and video.

The images, obtained by Civil Beat from a military source, have not been shared publicly before. They illustrate the horrific fuel leak at the Navy’s fuel storage complex on Nov. 20 that would ultimately contaminate the drinking water of military families living around Pearl Harbor, sickening hundreds.

The videos captured various points in time of the fuel release that, according to the Navy, lasted more than 34 hours.

In one video, embedded below, the worker records through the window of a ventilation door as fuel shoots out of a broken PVC pipe, creating a churning flood of fuel on the floor.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.civilbeat.org/2022/07/watch-fuel-spewed-full-blast-into-red-hill-tunnel-in-november/

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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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