[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: "Navy Wastes 2 Billion Gallons Of Water During Red Hill [HI] Cleanup"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy Wastes 2 Billion Gallons Of Water During Red Hill Cleanup
Regulators required the Navy to make a plan for reusing the water but never required them to act on it. 

By Christina Jedra  
Honolulu Civil Beat (HI)
July 20, 2023
   
After the Navy contaminated the Red Hill well with fuel, it worked to purge the aquifer of tainted water by pumping several million gallons per day out of the shaft. 

The plan was to filter the water to render it harmless and dump it in the Halawa Stream until the Navy could come up with a plan to reuse it or pump it back into the ground. 

A year and a half later, there is still no plan to repurpose the water. More than 2 billion gallons of water have been wasted, and millions more are being tossed every day. 

“This is very upsetting,” said Healani Sonoda-Pale, a member of the advocacy group Oahu Water Protectors. “The U.S. Navy is not a good caretaker of the limited resources we have here on Oahu, and they’ve shown that time and time again.”

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For the entire article, see
https://www.civilbeat.org/2023/07/navy-wastes-2-billion-gallons-of-water-during-red-hill-cleanup/

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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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