[Military Environmental Forum] FUEL: "Distrust, Uncertainty as Navy Moves to Reopen Red Hill [HI] Well"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Distrust, Uncertainty as Navy Moves to Reopen Red Hill Well
The service faces ongoing skepticism over its insistence the water will be safe to drink.

By Kevin Knodell
Originally published by The Honolulu Star-Advertiser (HI)
June 24, 2026

xAs the Navy continues to move forward with plans to reopen its Red Hill well and reconnect it to its Oahu water system five years after it was contaminated with jet fuel, the service faces ongoing skepticism over its insistence the water will be safe to drink.

The Navy released its environmental assessment for its planned Red Hill Water Treatment Facility this month with a “finding of no significant impact” for the project — or FONSI — issued May 26 by Rear Adm. B.J. Collins, commander of Navy Region Hawaii.

The FONSI said that reconnecting the Red Hill water shaft will “restore it as a drinking water source to provide adequate resiliency and redundancy to the Navy’s drinking water system for consumers and multiple Department of War operations at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.”

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For the entire article, see
https://www.military.com/distrust-uncertainty-as-navy-moves-to-reopen-red-hill-well

See also https://spectrumlocalnews.com/hi/hawaii/news/2026/06/24/feds-issue--17m-in-red-hill-settlement-payments

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)





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