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The Navy said the 1,000-gallon spill was contained and did not leave the facility. The Sierra Club said the spill underscores the threat of future spills and the risk to our drinking water. Attorney David Kimo Frankel represented the environmental group in a hearing earlier this year. He argued against giving the military a permit to operate the facility that the Navy claimed is critical for national security.
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About 700 gallons of fuel were recovered Friday after 1,000 gallons leaked from a fuel line at the Navy’s Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility, according to the Hawaii Department of Health and the Navy Region Hawaii.
The Navy said a distribution pipeline inside the facility released about 1,000 gallons of fuel on Thursday night. Its fuel containment system properly monitored, detected, and collected the fuel release as designed.
There was no indication that fuel was released to the environment, according to Capt. Gordie Meyer, Commanding Officer of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Hawaii.
There was no word yet on the exact cause.
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This comes as the Navy has been working to get approval from the Environmental Protection Agency and Hawaii Department of Health to upgrade the facility’s World War II-era tanks. Reading time: 5 minutes.
The Navy is currently cleaning up a fuel leak at its Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility that occurred late Thursday night and has begun investigating how it happened.
“Navy personnel responded to and contained a reported fuel release, initially assessed at approximately 1,000 gallons,” Navy Region Hawaii confirmed in an e-mail. “As designed, the fuel release went into a containment system in the tunnel where the pipeline is located, and the fuel was recovered.”
By WILLIAM COLE | The Honolulu Star-Advertiser | Published: May 8, 2021 HONOLULU (Tribune News Service) The Navy today confirmed that an approximately 1, 000-gallon fuel leak was detected Thursday at the troubled Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility, a World War II-built facility that came under criticism following a 27,000-gallon fuel release in 2014. Navy Region Hawaii said in an email that personnel responded to and contained a reported fuel release, initially assessed at approximately 1,000 gallons, from a pipeline at the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility Thursday night. As designed, the fuel release went into a containment system in the tunnel where the pipeline is located, and the fuel was recovered. There appears to be no release into the environment.