The Navy is approaching a new phase of work to shutter its underground Red Hill bulk fuel facility and remediate leak contamination. Later this year, Navy officials expect to begin removing 10 miles of fuel transmission pipes and reactivating one of two closed drinking water wells. A Navy task force finished draining about 104 million gallons of fuel from the World War II-era facility in March 2024 after a massive spill in November 2021, and more recently began cleaning the system’s tanks long