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Pentagon to shut down fuel storage facility in Hawaii after contaminating water

By Mike Brest
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Pentagon to shut down fuel storage facility in Hawaii after contaminating water

The Department of Defense announced it will be shutting down the Navy’s Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility in Hawaii, months after discovering that it had been contaminating local residents’ drinking water.

Back in November, the facility was discovered to be the location of a massive fuel leak that contaminated thousands of people’s drinking water at the joint Pearl Harbor-Hickam Navy and Army base.

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