'Citizens of Oahu cannot wait.'
Ten days ago, late on a Friday afternoon, May 27, 2022, the contractor's assessment of the repairs needed in the US Navy's Red Hill Jet Fuel Storage Area was delivered to the Hawai'i Department of Health. The redacted report made available to the public shed light on how badly managed and maintained the massive 80-year-old, 20 storage tank, 250 million gallon facility located a mere 100 feet above Honolulu's water supply, had become.
underscores that there were many"near misses" with potentially even greater disasters than the May and November 2021 leaks/spills from the large jet fuel tank system.as testimony revealed in the February 2021 Contested Hearing on Red Hill, The cost annex that detailed the undoubtedly hundreds of millions of dollars needed to make the repairs was not provided to the public.Citizens of Oahu cannot wait for two years for massive repairs to the tank farm and pipe system, before removing the fuel when there are cheaper and faster alternatives to the probable extraordinarily expensive massive repairs called for by the report.
Fuel would NOT be pumped down to Pearl Harbor, but instead into 7,500 gallon commercial fuel tankers that would be staged at the Halawa entrance to the Red Hill complex.
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