Commander Travis Myers said the Navy has retrofitted the Red Hill shaft pump room to prevent any more of the tainted water from entering the distribution system. The Red Hill shaft, which is the source of the contamination that impacted the Pearl Harbor area’s 93,000 water users, has been shuttered since Nov. The plan, outlined in an over 200-page report, was developed by the Interagency Drinking Water System Team made up of DOH, the EPA, the Army and the Navy. Water samples taken at three points in the filtration system can yield results on hydrocarbon levels within an hour, they said. The fuel-tainted water will travel twice through a granular activated carbon filtration, or GAC, system, and continuous testing will ensure it is safe to discharge, officials with the Navy and DOH said during a media tour on Friday. The Navy has installed eight granulated carbon filters for the remediation project. “The Department of Health permit does not allow for pollution into the stream,” he said. If anyone does observe that, they should contact the health department, but he says it’s “highly unlikely.”
Matt Kurano, an environmental health specialist with DOH, said the community should not expect to see any oil sheen, smell any fuel or observe any fish kills. The Navy will pump five million gallons of contaminated water out of the Red Hill shaft every day, treat it and release it into the Halawa Stream through this system of pipelines. It’s a process the Hawaii Department of Health said on Friday should be safe for public health and the environment. We provide you with the experience and technology to tackle complex heavy civil construction projects and bring your project to completion.Within days, the Navy will begin pumping millions of gallons of fuel-contaminated water out of the Red Hill well, cleaning it through two giant filters and discharging it into the Halawa Stream.
In 1997 he and his wife Jill Komperda founded North Shore Land Consultants (a heavy civil construction layout services company).
Chris Komperda took on his first construction job as Project Surveyor for Hawaiian Dredging Construction Company – H3 Interstate Tunnels – Halawa Approach – State of Hawaii Department of Transportation (1992).
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