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The Navy should repurpose the underground Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility to store water used on bases and surrounding areas.
During the summer months in the late 1980s and 1990s, the Navy was notorious for watering vast green spaces around the officers’ quarters in the middle of the day, despite ongoing water restrictions for the rest of Oahu during drought periods.
I personally know of the Navy’s disdain for pitching in to conserve water when I worked at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard. I made a complaint about watering green areas profusely (overwatering) during the middle of the day. The response was, “The Navy has its own water wells so we are exempt.”
That’s how the Navy has operated in the past and present; most likely it will continue to do so in the future unless put on a short leash.
Trevor Tyler
Aliamanu
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