Rear Adm. Marc Williams, deputy commander, Navy Closure Task Force-Red Hill, reflects on the Red Hill spill, discusses steps taken to close the facility and presents his vision for the future.
October 2024
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii - Navy Closure Task Force - Red Hill (NCTF-RH) continued safe and deliberate closure efforts in October, including tank cleaning, environmental assessment and remediation activities.
Navy reduces granular activated carbon water pumping system rates from 4.2 to 1.8 million gallons per day. The Navy began reducing water pumping operations at the Red Hill Shaft from 4.2 million gallons a day (MGD) to 1.8 MGD, April 29, after working with state regulators for months on a plan to allow the Navy to reduce the amount of water discharged into the Halawa Stream.
Since its inception Navy Closure Task Force-Red Hill (NCTF-RH) has been actively working to execute decommissioning of the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility (RHBFSF) and ensure safe drinking water for all those in the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam drinking water system.
Here are the links to the latest updates:
Recently detected low levels of total petroleum hydrocarbons, or TPH, in the Navy’s drinking water system were the result of laboratory contamination and not associated with the release of jet fuel from the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility, the Navy Closure Task Force-Red Hill (NCTF-RH) announced April 24.
