Every day on Oʻahu, the U.S. Navy pumps an average of 1.7 million gallons of water from the Red Hill well, filters it, and dumps it in a nearby stream – effectively sending it to the ocean.
Pump, filter, dump. Pump, filter, dump. Month after month. Year after year.
It’s a lingering response to the military’s 2021 water contamination crisis in which fuel from the Navy’s Red Hill fuel facility contaminated Pearl Harbor’s drinking water. Pumping the still-contaminated water out is meant to prevent a plume of fuel from traveling toward other wells…