The leak of jet fuel from a storage facility in Hawaii into a local aquifer has displaced more than 3,000 military service members and their families, sickened residents and put renewed pressure on the military to invest millions to stop future leaks
HONOLULU—The leak of jet fuel from a World War II-era storage facility into a local aquifer has displaced more than 3,000 military service members and their families, sickened residents and put renewed pressure on the military to invest millions to stop future leaks.
Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks visited the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility on Tuesday after petroleum leaked into the aquifer that provides fresh water to military families and tens of thousands of Hawaiians. Ms. Hicks toured the tunnels inside the Navy facility, completed in 1943, which contains tanks holding up to 250 million gallons of jet fuel for military operations in the Pacific.
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