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Water from the Navy’s Red Hill shaft contains high levels of gasoline and diesel fuel hydrocarbons, the Hawaiʻi Department of Health confirmed, saying the results are consistent with odors detected at the sample sites.

A storied history is evidence of the rich cultural area threatened by leaks from the Navy's tanks, which sit 100 feet above Oʻahu's freshwater source. HPR's Noe Tanigawa spoke with Kahu Roddy Akau, the konohiki of Moanalua, about the historical and cultural significance of the Red Hill area.

Military families living near Pearl Harbor have complained for days of stomach pain, nausea and other health ailments after the Navy's water system became contaminated by petroleum. The issues may threaten one of Honolulu’s most important aquifers and water sources. The Navy says tests identified petroleum in a well that taps into an aquifer near the base.

Island Energy Services has officially marked the completion of five additional above-ground fuel storage tanks at its facility in Kapolei. The company held a blessing Thursday afternoon for the storage tanks.

A U.S. military watchdog says Navy officials lacked sufficient understanding of the risks of maintaining massive fuel storage tanks on top of a drinking water well at Pearl Harbor where spilled jet fuel poisoned more than 6,000 people.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is visiting Hawaiʻi this week amid lingering community frustration and distrust after jet fuel from a military storage facility last year spilled into Pearl Harbor’s drinking water. The spill poisoned thousands of military families and threatened the purity of Honolulu’s water supply.

The Honolulu Board of Water Supply said its past, current and future remediation and mitigation efforts following the spill total about $1.2 billion, and it maintains that the U.S. Navy should bear that cost instead of ratepayers.

The U.S. military plans to begin draining fuel from World War II-era underground fuel tanks on Oʻahu. Work to drain the 104 million gallons remaining in the tanks is scheduled to begin on Monday. The operation comes nearly two years after the facility sickened 6,000 people when it leaked jet fuel into a Pearl Harbor drinking water well.

Honolulu Board of Water Supply Chief Engineer Ernie Lau said most of the recovered costs would go toward replacing the shutdown Halawa shaft at another location and developing two new production wells. The leak continues to threaten the aquifer shared by the Navy and the BWS.

The U.S. Navy says it's stopped the spill of a water and fuel mixture from a drain line near an underground fuel storage facility that serves Pearl Harbor. The Navy says the liquid flowed from a fire suppression system into a tunnel.