A permit issued by the state health department allows the Navy to extract contaminated water from Red Hill Shaft — a well situated about 100 feet below a fuel storage facility — for treatment ...

Red Hill Shaft is about 100 feet below the fuel storage facility and it has a history of leaking, but the U.S. Navy proposed a plan to remove five million gallons to treat it.

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Draining the Navy fuel tanks at Red Hill isn’t the only challenge unresolved. There are also tens of millions of gallons of water in a tainted shaft to be dealt with, and ...

The Navy will use a granulated activated carbon filtering system to flush 5 million gallons of water per day from the Red Hill shaft as part of a multi-agency plan.