Pearl Harbor water poisoned after multiple errors at fuel storage facility, Navy report says

A Navy report revealed that mistakes at the Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility led to a fuel leak that poisoned thousands of people and forced military families from their homes around Peal Harbor.

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"Red Hill needs to be shut down as quickly as possible and we fully expect that the Navy will marshal all possible available resources to defuel and decommission the facility," Deputy Director of Environmental Health Kathleen Ho said in a statement. "However, with the extensive repairs needed and the Navy’s history of spills from unsafe pipelines, our first priority continues to be ensuring that all defueling activities are performed safely for the sake of the people and environment of Hawai‘i."

The report listed a series of mistakes from May 2021, when operator error caused a pipe to rupture and 21,000 gallons of fuel to spill when it was being transferred between tanks. The fuel spilled into a fire suppression line, sat there for six months and then spilled again when a cart rammed into it in November.