[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: "Navy claims success in removing fuel contamination around Red Hill tank farm, " HI

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy claims success in removing fuel contamination around Red Hill tank farm

By Daryl Huff
Hawaii News Now
June 12, 2023 

HONOLULU - The Navy says it has made dramatic progress cleaning out its contaminated well at Red Hill and is cutting back on the millions of gallons of water being dumped down Halawa Stream.

But some environmentalists are still suspicious about those claims — and regret the waste of drinking water.

Since the Department of Health ordered the pumping of the Red Hill shaft 18 months ago, more than 2.3 billion gallons of fresh, filtered water have gone down the Halawa Stream into the sea

The pumping of up to 5 million gallons a day through giant Granulated Activated Charcoal filters — called GACs — was part of a strategy agreed to by the Navy, EPA, Health Department and environmental groups to prevent contamination from spreading towards wells used for the civilian water supply.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2023/06/13/navy-claims-success-removing-fuel-contamination-around-red-hill-tank-farm/

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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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