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The Pentagon is permanently closing a U.S. Navy fuel storage tank in Hawaii that leaked petroleum into the Pearl Harbor water supply, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin announced Monday.
U.S. Army Garrison Hawaii commemorated a new 2-million-gallon concrete water tank—a key milestone in the Army’s $1.2 billion, 10-year plan to modernize water infrastructure across its Oahu ...
The fuel storage tanks have long been a flashpoint in Hawaii, with Native Hawaiians and other residents raising concerns over the past decade about leaks that threatened the broader water supply.
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii — The long-anticipated first step in emptying fuel from the Navy’s massive Red Hill underground storage tanks near ... uses for its water distribution ...
Fuel leaks at Red Hill had occurred before, including in 2014, prompting the Sierra Club of Hawaii and the Honolulu Board of Water Supply to ask the military to move the tanks to a place where ...
the Navy must then defuel the underground storage tanks there. The EPA partnered with the Navy, Army and the Hawaii Department of Health to restore safe drinking water conditions to the affected ...
the Port of Singapore and a pair of depots in Hawaii. On Dec. 5, the remaining 7 feet of so-called “flowable tank bottom” fuel in each tank will be drained through much smaller lines directly ...
Fuel leaks at Red Hill had occurred before, including in 2014, prompting the Sierra Club of Hawaii and the Honolulu Board of Water Supply to ask the military to move the tanks to a place where ...