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One year after another fuel spill contaminated the Navy drinking water system, the Defense Department is in the process of closing and defueling the facility. In a column for the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, former state Department of Health Director Bruce Anderson suggested the tanks be used to store drinking water.

The U.S. Navy says operator error was the main cause of a fuel leak from the Red Hill storage facility on Oʻahu in May. As HPR’s Scott Kim reports, the Navy maintains the leak did not contaminate the island’s drinking water.

State lawmakers have approved an emergency appropriation to reimburse the Department of Health for costs stemming from the Red Hill water crisis. The bill to provide $1.5 million for the DOH was passed by a joint legislative committee.

The military started draining 104 million gallons from World War II-era underground fuel tanks on Oct. 16, nearly two years after the massive facility sickened 6,000 people when it leaked jet fuel into a Pearl Harbor drinking water well.

The state Department of Health has rejected the U.S. Navy’s defueling plan for the Red Hill fuel storage facility, saying the plan lacks detail. HPR's Sabrina Bodon reports.

To mark a decade since 27,000 gallons of jet fuel leaked from an underground tank in the Navy's Red Hill facility, The Conversation's Catherine Cruz spoke to representatives from the Honolulu Board of Water Supply and the Sierra Club of Hawaiʻi. BWS Manager Ernest Lau said he doesn't want to take any chances with Honolulu's drinking water.

Military families welcomed the news that the Department of Defense will permanently shut down the Red Hill fuel tanks. We checked back in with a military mom who has been willing to share her experience throughout these past four months that her family has been displaced.

Hawaiʻi members of Congress say a new spending bill includes $403 million to address the crisis caused by the leaking of petroleum from a Navy fuel storage tank facility into Pearl Harbor drinking water. The money incorporates $100 million to drain fuel from the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility.

The Sierra Club of Hawaiʻi has filed a public records complaint with the state Department of Health after learning of an email trail it believes could change the outcome of a contested case hearing for the U.S. Navy’s permit to operate the Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage Facility. The Sierra Club’s executive director Wayne Tanaka shared how he hopes the contested hearing will end.

The Hawai‘i Department of Health sent two sets of water samples from the Navy water system and did not find a clear link to petroleum. But some samples were damaged in transit and could not be tested.