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5 million gallon oil plume beneath Pearl Harbor
September 21, 2015HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - For decades, leaks from Pearl Harbor's fuel tanks and other sources have been collecting beneath the ground near the naval base's Halawa gate.
Hawaii News Now has obtained records issued by the Navy that indicate that the subsurface oil plume there now contains more than 5 million gallons of fuel.
That's roughly half the volume of Alaska's Exxon Valdez spill in 1989 and nearly 200 times the size of last year's leak at the Navy's Red Hill underground fuel facility.
"This is the most egregious, the most harmful environmental issue there is," said environmental activist Carroll Cox.
"Oil should not be in the ground, diesel should not be in the ground because they are contaminants."
The plume lies under a maze of utility lines, making access extremely difficult. Estimates for the clean up costs run in the tens of millions of dollars.