30 gallons of water and fuel spill at Red Hill storage facility

TL;DR - About 30 gallons of fuel and water spilled from the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility this afternoon during maintenance work at the facility’s underground storage tanks.

The Navy in a news release said the fuel release took place in the vicinity of tanks 13 and 14 at around noon during the maintenance work to remove water from the tanks, which the state Department of Health said in its own release is an environmental control to avoid corrosion of the tanks. The DOH said the fuel and water mixture release came from a maintenance line connected to Tank 15.

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