[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: "Council calls on regulators to better protect against Red Hill [HI] fuel tank leaks"

[Lenny Siegel]

Council calls on regulators to better protect against Red Hill fuel tank leaks

Hawaii News Now
March 8, 2019 

HONOLULU - The Honolulu City Council wants to quash the Navy’s plan to use a single-wall upgrade on 18 deteriorating jet fuel tanks at Red Hill.
Council members agree with the Board of Water Supply that the plan puts Honolulu’s water supply at risk.

“This is a precious water supply,” Ernie Lau, of the Board of Water Supply, told the council. “Once it’s contaminated with fuel ... it would be very difficult or nearly impossible to address and clean up the situation.”

The Red Hill bulk storage facility holds over 200 million gallons of fuel ― all of it just 100 feet above a freshwater aquifer that serves residents from Moanalua to Hawaii Kai.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2019/03/09/city-safety-concerns-council-urges-regulators-quash-navys-plan-red-hill-fuel-tanks/

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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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