Posted on Oct 4, 2016
Regulators want Navy to redo some Red Hill fuel tank plans
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HONOLULU — Regulators are ordering the Navy to redo some of its plans to assess the threat its Red Hill fuel tanks pose to Honolulu's groundwater.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the state Department of Health sent a letter to the Navy dated Sept. 15. It says the military will need to gather sufficient data to establish likely groundwater flow directions beneath and around the tanks.
The agencies say the work is critical for limiting the risk to the drinking water from past and potential future fuel leaks.
The Navy stores fuel for military ships and aircraft in 20 underground tanks at Red Hill. The tanks sit on an aquifer that supplies a quarter of the water consumed in urban Honolulu.
The Navy detected a leak of 27,000 gallons from one tank in 2014.\
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the state Department of Health sent a letter to the Navy dated Sept. 15. It says the military will need to gather sufficient data to establish likely groundwater flow directions beneath and around the tanks.
The agencies say the work is critical for limiting the risk to the drinking water from past and potential future fuel leaks.
The Navy stores fuel for military ships and aircraft in 20 underground tanks at Red Hill. The tanks sit on an aquifer that supplies a quarter of the water consumed in urban Honolulu.
The Navy detected a leak of 27,000 gallons from one tank in 2014.\
Regulators want Navy to redo some Red Hill fuel tank plans
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Thanks for letting us know SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL that the Obama U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the state Department of Health regulators are ordering the Navy to redo some of its plans to assess the threat its Red Hill fuel tanks pose to Honolulu's groundwater.
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Ya think it's about time? I lived in the Middle of that F**king tank farm for about 2 years. Day Late and a Dollar Short like most Military and Government responses to Hazmat but hell lets take even more money away from the EPA and do less checks. Then it all goes away doesn't it? The end result of shortchanging our Duties to Mother Earth.
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