Over 7,000 local residents have filed a class action lawsuit against the U.S. Navy for injuries suffered due to the leak.
As of November 8, an estimated 79,768, 836 gallons of fuel, or 75% of the 104,000,000 gallons stored in the 80-year-old massive leaking underground fuel tanks at Red Hill in Pearl Harbor , Hawaii has been removed.Nearly two years ago, in late November 2021, a massive leak of fuel flowed directly into Oahu’s drinking aquifer . Approximately 93,000 persons living in 17 residential areas around Pearl Harbor naval base were affected.
Here is a breakdown of the four weeks of defueling and where the fuel has gone:October 16-20, Joint Task Force-Red Hill safely removed 16,299,594 gallons from the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility and completed transfer of fuel to the first tanker Empire State by gravity draining approximately 12 million gallons of F-24 fuel from tanks 2 and 6 at the RHBFSF, Oct. 18. The 12 million gallons were transported to Island Energy Services tanks at Campbell Industrial Park, in West Oahu.
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