The top official at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday an upcoming inspection of a Navy fuel tank facility that leaked petroleum into Pearl Harbor's tap water will look at whether the tank farm was properly operated.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan, left, discusses the contamination of Pearl Harbor's water system by the Navy's Red Hill fuel tank facility as EPA Regional Administrator Martha Guzman, right, listens at a news conference in Honolulu, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. HONOLULU — The top official at the U.S.
Hawaii's Department of Health has ordered the Navy to drain fuel from the tanks, which were built nearly 80 years ago into the side of a mountain to protect them from enemy attack. The Navy has appealed that order to give it time to develop alternative solutions for storing the fuel. It has also hired a firm to help it carry it out the defueling order.
But she said the EPA had been monitoring the groundwater in the aquifer for fuel contamination while the current crisis was precipitated by fuel leaking directly into the Navy’s Red Hill well from a drain that officials didn’t even know existed.
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