Star-Advertiser poll: 73% agree with SB2774 to relocate Red Hill fuel by 2028

Yesterday, the Star-Advertiser’s Big Q Poll had a question on SB2774- a bill we STRONGLY SUPPORT that would shut down the Red Hill fuel tanks and require the relocation of the Navy’s fuel away from drinking water resources by 2028.

454 of 621 responses, or 73% of those polled, either agreed or strongly agreed with this bill:

Although this is not a scientific poll (view the results here), it reinforces the widespread support for relocating the Navy’s fuel. This support was also evident during the November 2019 public meeting in Moanalua, in which hundreds of residents filled the Moanalua Middle School cafeteria and around 50 people public testified in opposition to the Navy’s current plan for Red Hill.

SB2774 has already received over 100 pages in testimony in its first hearing and now heads to the Senate CPH committee. Notably, our State Department of Health supports the bill, agreeing that in the long term, the Navy’s fuel should not remain in WWII era tanks that sit 100 feet above O‘ahu’s primary drinking water aquifer.