Federal bill OK’d with funding to drain Red Hill fuel tanks
TL;DR - The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a short-term funding bill that includes a provision that pushes the Department of Defense to abide by a state emergency order to drain the tanks at the Navy’s underground Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility and provides $100 million in funding for the process.
The Navy has resisted the order, issued in December by the state Department of Health, after fuel from the facility tainted the service’s water system that serves 93,000 people in and around Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.
February 18, 2022: Federal bill OK’d with funding to drain Red Hill fuel tanks, Honolulu Star-Advertiser
February 18, 2022: Federal spending bill passes with funding to drain Red Hill fuel tanks, Hawaiʻi Public Radio