[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: "Navy’s Red Hill [HI] Analysis Concerns Environmental Regulators"

[Lenny Siegel]

Navy’s Red Hill Analysis Concerns Environmental Regulators
The Navy is working on a 20-year-plan to reduce the risk of leaks and fuel contamination from giant fuel tanks on Oahu.

By The Associated Press  
March 12, 2018

A Navy analysis may underestimate the contamination potential of leaks from giant fuel tanks near Pearl Harbor, environmental regulators said.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Hawaii Department of Health sent a letter to the Navy last month outlining their concerns about the Navy’s work.

The Navy has 20 underground fuel storage tanks dating to World War II in the hills above Pearl Harbor. The tanks sit on an aquifer that supplies a quarter of the water consumed in urban Honolulu.

More than 27,000 gallons leaked from one of the tanks in 2014.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.civilbeat.org/2018/03/navys-red-hill-analysis-concerns-environmental-regulators/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel at cpeo.org>
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