Off the News: Red Hill Leak Still a Taint on Hawaii 4 Years on | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Off the news: Red Hill leak still a taint on Hawaii 4 years on | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Four years ago, Oahu was just starting to detect something to be majorly wrong with the water supplied by the Navy’s Pearl Harbor-Hickam system. It would take more than a week of complaints about strong fuel odors and illnesses before officials finally declared the water unsafe, contaminated by about 20,000 gallons of fuel that had gushed from the military’s Red Hill storage tanks on Nov. 20-21, 2021.

4 years after fuel leak, Board of Water Supply continues Red Hill remediation

Four years ago today, a massive jet fuel leak forever changed the Navy’s operations at its once-top-secret, underground Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility in Halawa Valley. In its aftermath, the Honolulu Board of Water Supply says it continues to detect related fuel spill contamination in several city-owned drinking wells across Leeward Oahu. And BWS notes that while the Navy works to permanently shut down the World War II-era Red Hill facility…