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The Navy’s plan to permanently shutter the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility will soon involve a different entity: the Navy Closure Task Force-Red Hill.
The Navy’s plan to permanently shutter the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility will soon involve the Navy Closure Task Force-Red Hill, which will replace the Joint Task Force-Red Hill, the multiservice military group tasked with defueling the underground fuel facility that secretly opened during World War II.
Two news stories breaking on Tuesday underscore, very concerningly, the uncertainty of chemical dangers that lurk below Hawaii’s picture-perfect environs.
As much as 2 million gallons of fuel may have leaked and spilled into the ground under the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility since it was built during World War II, an amount far exceeding past estimates.
Underestimate but overdeliver — that’s a good thing, especially if it pertains to the defueling of the massive tanks at the problematic Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility.