Navy: Red Hill clean-up costs top $250M

TL;DR - U.S. Navy officials told a Congressional subcommittee that well over $250 million has been spent remediating a fuel leak at the Red Hill underground storage facility in Hawaii that contaminated the area’s water supply.

Naval officials said the fuel leak was caused by “operator error” and have pledged to fix the problem and comply with an order from the Hawaii Department of Health to drain the underground storage tanks.

The House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness spent two hours Tuesday questioning naval officials about the water contamination, which was discovered last November by residents of the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.

January 13, 2022: Navy: Red Hill clean-up costs top $250M, The Center Square