Navy Investigating Fuel Leak At Red Hill - Honolulu Civil Beat
Navy Investigating Fuel Leak At Red Hill
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: January 25, 2021 HONOLULU (Tribune News Service) A contested case hearing is scheduled for Feb. 1-5 to debate the Navy obtaining a state operating permit for the Red Hill fuel farm, with the Sierra Club of Hawaii hoping it leads to stricter controls in the short term and relocation of the controversial underground tanks longer-term. The Navy has failed to produce evidence that the underground tanks, completed during World War II and located 100 feet above the groundwater aquifer, will not release more petroleum into the environment, attorney David Kimo Frankel said on behalf of the Sierra Club.
By WILLIAM COLE | The Honolulu Star-Advertiser | Published: January 8, 2021 HONOLULU (Tribune News Service) The Navy on Thursday laid out plans for a double-wall stainless steel tank system at the Red Hill fuel farm accelerating its goal of providing secondary containment to keep the aged tanks where they are in the face of criticism directed at a less comprehensive proposal to prevent fuel spills. If testing proves successful, the Navy could begin installation into a tank at Red Hill as early as late next year, Capt. Gordie Meyer, commander of Naval Facilities Engineering Command Hawaii, said at a Chamber of Commerce Hawaii military partnership conference.