JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii – The Interagency Drinking Water System Team (IDWST) finalized the Red Hill Shaft Recovery and Monitoring Plan, which details the process for containing and removing
The Navy has begun the process of flushing water from its Red Hill Shaft in an attempt to restore it as a source of drinking water for military communities. As HPR’s Scott Kim reports, Navy officials detailed the process to state legislators at a briefing Monday.
The Navy on Tuesday began pumping almost 5 million gallons of treated water each day from a well in Hawaii contaminated by a petroleum leak that sickened military families on the island of Oahu.
Earthjustice and the Sierra Club of Hawai‘i expressed “deep frustration” at the US Navy’s decision to appeal the state’s emergency order to defuel the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility.