Honolulu water board studies how to clean Red Hill tanks pollution

TL;DR - In a move to get out in front of the Red Hill water crisis, the Honolulu Board of Water Supply has launched a study to determine whether it will be feasible to treat water tainted by various petroleum chemicals and turn it into something clean and safe to drink.

Treating such contaminants promises to be a complicated process that will likely cost hundreds of millions of dollars and might yet prove too costly to undertake, according to BWS officials.

But the study, they said, is worth the effort as they wait to find out exactly how much of an impact the leaks from the Navy’s 79-year-old Red Hill Bulk Fuel Facility will have on the aquifer below it.

October 9, 2022: Honolulu water board studies how to clean Red Hill tanks pollution, Stars and Stripes