The military task force draining the fuel from the Navy's underground Red Hill fuel facility announced Friday that it had wrapped up the last of its major milestones for the year, completing “gravity defueling” operations.
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In a video released Wednesday, the military officer charged with defueling the Navy’s underground Red Hill fuel facility pledged that “every last drop will be removed.”
Joint Task Force Red Hill began removing the fuel in October after more than a year of making repairs to the World War II-era facility and the pipelines that connect it to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.