Navy says Red Hill cameras may not be operable for defueling

TL;DR - The Navy says that repairs to its video surveillance system at Red Hill, where seven out of 37 cameras remain broken, may not be completed before it begins draining all 104 million gallons of fuel from its underground tanks, which is slated to begin in February 2024 and take four months.

The camera system hasn’t been fully operational for at least two years.

The lengthy timeline for repairs means that if there is a fuel spill or other accident at Red Hill — as occurred last month when approximately 1,300 gallons of toxic fire suppression chemicals spewed from a pipe — there’s a higher likelihood it won’t be caught by the Navy’s surveillance system and that footage won’t be available for regulators to review.

December 25, 2022: Navy says Red Hill cameras may not be operable for defueling, Honolulu Star-Advertiser