Fuel from the Red Hill fuel facility leaked into the Red Hill water well, contaminating the Navy’s Oahu water system. Get the latest updates about cleanup.
Three active-duty service members filed legal claims against the U.S government this week seeking compensation for health impacts and other damages they say they suffered when jet fuel from the Navy’s Red Hill facility contaminated their drinking water in 2021. Read more
The DOH memo was provided to the Star-Advertiser this week by attorneys for military families who are suing the Navy over the jet fuel exposure. Read more
State and military officials say they are working together to make repairs and improvements to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam’s leaky wastewater treatment plant. Read more
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Looking at freshwater supply challenges around the globe stirs a range of emotions. Read more
The Navy, which disclosed the spill this week to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, said that at the time of the release, it was not required to report the incident to regulatory agencies or internally within the U.S. Department of Defense. Read more
Joint Task Force Red Hill announced Tuesday that it will develop an environmental assessment, or EA, on plans to redistribute the 104 million gallons of fuel at its World War II-era Red Hill fuel storage facility. Read more
The EPA has grown so concerned about PFAS that this week it proposed the first federal limits on the chemicals in drinking water, limiting them to the lowest possible level that tests can detect. Read more
For Hawaii, seeing March 22 on the calendar as World Water Day, the annual United Nations observance, stirs anxieties as environmental hazards emanate from the Red Hill fuel storage facility. Read more
While the contract with the two firms will focus on collecting ideas from local residents, the Navy is in the process of awarding a separate contract to a private-sector partner to determine a range of possible Department of Defense uses for the fuel storage facility. Read more
Kristina Baehr, Just Well Law trial lawyer, joined the Honolulu Star-Advertiser’s “Spotlight Hawaii” livestream show today and answered questions about Red Hill. Read more
The Pentagon announced last year that it was permanently closing Red Hill after a fuel leak from the facility contaminated the Navy’s drinking water system serving areas in and around Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, sickening military families. Read more
Hawaii’s congressional delegation called on the IRS to “use its administrative authority to exempt any assistance provided by the Department of Defense to ensure the equitable administration of the tax code.” Read more
The company awarded a half-million-dollar, no-bid “public outreach” contract to solicit ideas from the community about possible alternative uses of the Navy’s Red Hill facility once it’s closed for fueling operations is being tight-lipped about how it plans to conduct community outreach. Read more
The officer the Pentagon has tasked with overseeing the defueling of the Navy’s Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility has for Hawaii residents in many ways become the face of the Navy. Read more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it will grant the Navy’s request for more time to turn over information about spills of toxic fire suppression chemicals at its Red Hill underground fuel facility, but only if military officials agree to speed up release of some of the requested material. Read more
Hawaii must never again risk leaks or spills of any toxic substance into our water supply. Read more
Many unanswered questions remain about the Navy’s Nov. 29 spill of environmentally hazardous aqueous film forming foam (AFFF) used to suppress fires at its Red Hill fuel-storage site — including just how long it will take to get answers. Read more
The Navy has blown a Monday deadline to provide the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency with details about its cleanup of a Nov. 29 spill of toxic fire suppression chemicals at Red Hill and any past spills of the aqueous film forming foam, or AFFF, at the underground fuel facility, telling federal regulators that it would need another five weeks to provide that information. Read more
The Navy announced Tuesday that it has awarded a contract to Hawaii-based Nakupuna Cos. to develop a public outreach program to look for proposals on how to repurpose the underground Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility after the military removes the roughly 104 million gallons of fuel stored in the facility’s aging World War II-era tanks. Read more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Navy have agreed on terms of a proposed consent order that requires the Navy to defuel and close the Red Hill Bulk Storage Facility. Read more
Top officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Navy weathered a barrage of criticism from residents who crowded a town hall meeting Wednesday evening to discuss a proposed regulatory agreement relating to the defueling of the military’s Red Hill fuel facility. Read more
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