Committee Questions Navy Spill of Jet Fuel Near Pearl Harbor
Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage Facility near Pearl Harbor. (U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Meranda Keller)
22 May 2021
HONOLULU (AP) The U.S. Navy says a jet fuel spill at its Red Hill fuel farm on Oahu caused no environmental damage and didn t pose a risk to the area s drinking water, but a committee established by the Hawaii Legislature still has questions.
Navy Capt. Gordie Meyer, commander of Naval Facilities Engineering Command Hawaii, told the committee Thursday that the release of about 1,000 gallons of fuel at the facility near Pearl Harbor earlier this month had been “captured and fully contained, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported.
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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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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.