Four years ago today, a massive jet fuel leak forever changed the Navy’s operations at its once-top-secret, underground Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility in Halawa Valley.

In its aftermath, the Honolulu Board of Water Supply says it continues to detect related fuel spill contamination in several city-owned drinking wells across Leeward Oahu.

And BWS notes that while the Navy works to permanently shut down the World War II-era Red Hill facility, constructed just 100 feet above an aquifer that supplies most of Honolulu’s drinking water, the military branch is also attempting to reactivate separate, non-city wells, to further supply potable water to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.

On Wednesday, BWS Manager and Chief Engineer Ernie Lau lamented the 19,000-gallon jet fuel leak at the Red H

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