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The military has finished draining more than 104 million gallons of fuel from an underground fuel tank complex on Oʻahu that poisoned 6,000 people when it leaked jet fuel into Pearl Harbor’s drinking water in 2021. The task force will hand over responsibility for the tanks on Thursday to Navy Closure Task Force-Red Hill.
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Navy Vice Adm. John Wade sat down with HPR on Monday afternoon for a candid conversation about leading the mission to defuel the aging Red Hill facility and handing over this next phase of shutting it down.
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The nearly $3.4 billion dry dock modernization project at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard is spurring creative thinking to fill the engineering jobs needed over the next several years.
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Across the Hawaiian Islands, over a hundred women took part in a top-secret program called the Women’s Air Raid Defense. King’s College London lecturer and World War II historian Sarah-Louise Miller spoke to The Conversation about why few today remember their heroic contributions.
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Hawaiian Dredging is one of three companies driving the modernization of Dry Dock 5 at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard. Hawaiian Dredging Vice President of the Commercial Division Paul Silen talked to The Conversation about the joint venture to modernize the shipyard to the tune of $3.4 billion.
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One of the few remaining survivors of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has died. Richard C. "Dick" Higgins died at home in Bend, Oregon, at the age of 102. His granddaughter said Wednesday he died of natural causes.
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The Conversation looks closer at the pre-planning going into the Navy’s largest construction project in its history — and it's happening at the Pearl Harbor shipyard. We spoke with project manager Roy Morioka.
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The Conversation spoke with Navy Cmdr. Benjamin Dunn from the environmental and remediation team of Navy Closure Task Force - Red Hill.
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An upcoming meeting between the Red Hill Community Representation Initiative group and military officials could be contentious. The Conversation talked to CRI Chair Marti Townsend about the power struggle over the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-mandated meetings.
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The Navy finally released its report on a handful of homes that were reporting fuel contamination in their drinking water, specifically TPH, total petroleum hydrocarbons. Two military wives say they don't trust the findings, adding that if the 271-page report was supposed to make them feel better, it did not.