Hearing Officer Calls For Closing Red Hill Fuel Facility To Avert ‘Imminent Threat’
TL;DR - Calling the Navy’s water contamination crisis a “humanitarian and environmental disaster” that puts the public in imminent peril, a Hawaii health department hearing officer on Monday recommended upholding the state’s emergency order to drain the Red Hill fuel tanks.
“The weight of the evidence establishes that the Red Hill Facility, as currently situated, is a metaphorical ticking timebomb located 100 feet above the most important aquifer on Hawaii’s most populous island,” DOH Hearings Officer David Day wrote in a proposed decision and order released on Monday.
December 27, 2021: Hearing Officer Calls For Closing Red Hill Fuel Facility To Avert ‘Imminent Threat’, Honolulu Civil Beat
December 27, 2021: ‘A ticking time bomb’: Hearings officer says order to drain Red Hill fuel tanks should stand, Hawaiʻi News Now
December 27, 2021: Hawaii hearing officer says Navy should comply with state’s emergency order on Red Hill, Honolulu Star Advertiser
December 27, 2021: State reaffirms decision to shut down Red Hill fuel farm, KITV
December 27, 2021: Navy site that leaked fuel into water system a ‘time bomb’ that must be emptied, Hawaii official says, The Washington Post
December 27, 2021: Hawaiʻi official agrees Navy must remove fuel from Red Hill tanks, Hawaiʻi Public Radio