Hawaii Gives The Military The Go-Ahead To Start Draining Fuel From Red Hill

TL;DR - The Department of Defense is slated to remove more than a million gallons of fuel from three pipelines at the Navy’s Red Hill facility in the coming weeks after the Hawaii Department of Health conditionally approved a plan to do so on Friday.

The military’s so-called unpacking plan is the first phase in the overall defueling process, which is required by the health department’s emergency order that was imposed after a contamination crisis began last year when a leak affected the drinking water of some 93,000 people near Pearl Harbor.

The approval came after the DOD submitted its plan to drain the World War II-era facility last month. The military said the defueling process will be completed by July 2024, a few months earlier than its original prediction, which critics said wasn’t fast enough.

October 7, 2022: Hawaii Gives The Military The Go-Ahead To Start Draining Fuel From Red Hill, Honolulu Civil Beat

October 7, 2022: Hawaii DOH gives conditional approval for first phase of Red Hill defueling plan, KHON2