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The Navy began flushing water from its Red Hill Shaft over the weekend in an attempt to clear fuel contamination from the well. The Navy is allowed to dump up to 5 million gallons of water a day into the Halawa Stream.

The mystery of why current water sampling is showing levels of total petroleum hydrocarbons in the military's water system is still making some uneasy. Is it a case of false positives due to a reaction to chlorine and using the wrong kind of test, which is the military's theory?

The newly stood-up Navy Closure Task Force-Red Hill appears to be off to a rough start. A community group maintains the Navy is trying to strong-arm a process agreed to under a work order issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The Navy said it would look to meetings in February and March, indicating it wants to restructure the gatherings to make them more productive.

The Navy is preparing to “unpack” or drain the fuel lines at its Red Hill fuel storage facility. The state Department of Health estimates there are still about 1 million gallons of fuel in the pipelines.

Pipelines used to remove fuel from the storage tanks at the Red Hill facility have residual fuel in them that needs to be removed. The Navy hopes to complete that process by March 2024.

A top Pentagon official said Monday the military will appeal Hawaiʻi's emergency order to defuel the Navy's underground Red Hill fuel storage facility, a decision met with criticism from Hawaiʻi’s congressional delegation, the state Department of Health and others.

In a July 22 letter to the Department of Defense, the state Department of Health rejected the Navy’s initial framework plans for defueling the Red Hill bulk storage facility. HPR's Sabrina Bodon reports.

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.

Lawyers for the Wai Ola Alliance want to see a sense of urgency surrounding the defueling of the Navy Red Hill storage facility. The umbrella of environmental advocates has amended its legal complaint to have more of a say in the timeline.

July 31 marks Sovereignty Restoration Day for the Hawaiian Kingdom. Also known as Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea, the holiday recognizes the day King Kamehameha III restored the sovereignty of the Hawaiian Kingdom after a British officer illegally seized control of the government in the 1843 Paulet Affair.