Navy Closure Task News Today

The Navy has begun tank ventilation and air quality monitoring at the Red Hill fuel storage facility.

Court hears effects of 2021 leak, in which thousand of gallons of fuel seeped into drinking water supply from US navy storage tank

The Navy released several documents on medical appointment history before and after a 2022 spill at the Red Hill Bulk Fuel facility dumped jet fuel into the base housing water supply.

"They looked me in the eye and told me… 'We would never poison our own people,'" one former water resource management commissioner said. "And they lied. They lied about all of it."

The U.S. government is set to go on trial Monday in Hawaii for a case that began more than two years ago, when leaking jet fuel from a military storage site.

The Navy released several documents on medical appointment history before and after a 2022 spill at the Red Hill Bulk Fuel facility dumped jet fuel into the base housing water supply.

The Navy has determined that hundreds of tap water tests taken at Pearl Harbor in recent months produced false positives for low-level petroleum contamination due to the test’s chemical reaction with chlorine in the samples, the service announced Thursday.

The trial, which will include 17 of the more than 7,500 plaintiffs across three lawsuits, will explore whether the U.S. government owes damages to military housing residents who consumed jet fuel.

Members of the Red Hill Community Representation Initiative are expressing frustration with federal officials who declined to attend a scheduled meeting for a second time.

Since the March community meeting, several new documents have emerged that CRI members say raise serious questions. The absence of officials calls pledges of transparency into question, they say.