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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 ...
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The Navy submitted the proposal for approval to the Hawaii Department of Health on Tuesday. If all goes according to plan, the Navy says it will complete the closure of the storage tanks in August ...
HONOLULU — Navy officials “lacked sufficient understanding” of the risks of maintaining massive fuel storage tanks on top of a drinking water well at Pearl Harbor where spilled jet fuel ...
HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. military on Tuesday proposed an October start date for a plan to drain a World War II-era fuel tank ... the Hawaii naval base. It also prompted Honolulu’s water ...
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 ...