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Officials Reject Navy’s Red Hill Storage Tank Repair Plan

Hawaiʻi Public Radio | By Nick Yee (dj mr.nick)
Published October 3, 2016 at 3:16 PM HST
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(Aug. 23, 2007) - then-Secretary of the Navy the Honorable Dr. Donald C. Winter tours the Navy Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage Facility to get a first-hand look at the condition of the tanks. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Shawn P. Eklund

The U.S. Navy's plan to repair leaks at its Red Hill fuel storage facility on O?ahu has been rejected by state and federal officials. 

A letter from the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Hawai?i Department of Health found 11 inadequacies in the proposal.  The Navy has been given 30 days to correct problems which range from including more monitoring wells to providing more details in the plan.

The fuel storage complex in Red Hill is located 100-feet above the groundwater aquifer that serves 600-thousand people.

The move has been applauded by environmental groups.  Marti Townsend is the Executive Director of the Sierra Club of Hawai‘i. 

A public hearing is being held on the Red Hill Storage Tanks is being held at on Thursday at 6pm at Moanalua Middle School. 
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Nick Yee’s passion for music developed at an early age, as he collected jazz and rock records pulled from dusty locations while growing up in both Southern California and Honolulu. In college he started DJing around Honolulu, playing Jazz and Bossa Nova sets at various lounges and clubs under the name dj mr.nick. He started to incorporate Downtempo, House and Breaks into his sets as his popularity grew, eventually getting DJ residences at different Chinatown locations. To this day, he is a fixture in the Honolulu underground club scene, where his live sets are famous for being able to link musical and cultural boundaries, starting mellow and building the audience into a frenzy while steering free of mainstream clichés.
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