IG offers scathing assessment of Navy oversight of Red Hill fuel facility in Hawaii
In a pair of recently released reports, the Department of Defense Inspector General’s Office offered a scathing assessment of Navy oversight of the now-defunct Red Hill fuel facility, where a leak in late 2021 contaminated the Navy’s water distribution used by military communities on and near Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.
Read the Department of Defense Inspector General's full report on Red Hill fuel spills
In November 2021, a Navy employee driving a small vehicle hauling a cart accidentally struck a drain valve on the overhead pipeline, causing the pipeline to crack. JP-5 jet fuel flowed from the pipeline for 34 hours and contaminated the Joint Base Pearl ...
Navy officials “lacked sufficient understanding” of the risks of maintaining massive fuel storage tanks on top of a drinking ...
Jury deliberations continue in the trial of Navy wife Dixie Denise Villa, accused of manslaughter in the death of 7-month-old ...
GEORGE F. LEE / 2023 At top, inside Upper Tank No. 19 during a tour of the Red Hill Fuel Storage Facility in Halawa Valley in 2023. 1 /2 GEORGE F. LEE / 2023 At top, inside Upper Tank No. 19 during a ...
The Department of Defense Office of Inspector General released a management advisory report Thursday detailing concerns about the Navy’s handling of spills involving thousands of gallons of aqueous ...
Identified through DNA profiling, Edward Dale Johnson, from New Rockford, North Dakota, was laid to rest recently in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii ...
Two German naval vessels are on a months-long mission through the Indo-Pacific, blending military diplomacy with strategic ...
Hundreds attend a public hearing at Moanalua Middle School on the Navy’s plan to fix the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Facility storage tank that leaked an estimated 27,000 gallons of jet fuel on Jan. 13, 2014.
Navy officials lacked understanding of fuel tank risks, leading to massive fuel spill poisoning thousands at Pearl Harbour.
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