Navy Agrees To Fix Pearl Harbor Wastewater Treatment Plant … Before the Environmental Protection Agency got involved, state Department of Health officials reported urgent problems at the facility.
The Navy is still addressing problems at its Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam wastewater treatment plant two years after state inspectors reported serious problems at the facility.
Officials from the Hawaii Department of Health’s Clean Water Branch looked at the facility in 2019 and said they found it in such a state of disrepair that they were unable to complete the inspection.
“Our inspectors came back and immediately sounded their alarm, because one of the major findings was they couldn’t even enter the final pump station,” said Matthew Kurano, the branch’s enforcement section supervisor. “The building itself was structurally compromised.”
