Members in support of Joint Task Force-Red Hill (JTF-RH) open a low point drain to enable the removal of residual fuel from the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility Jan. 16, 2024, in Halawa, Hawaii. (ZaBarr Jones/Department of Defense)

The Navy has created a new website to help track the efforts to shut down and clean up the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility.

The site, created in conjunction with the Navy Closure Task Force-Red Hill (www.navyclosuretaskforce.navy.mil), launched Thursday.

The website will include information about the new task force. Once fully operational, it will serve as a comprehensive resource for information on the ongoing closure and environmental remediation efforts at Red Hill. The site will host a range of digital content, to include news updates, educational tools, resource documents and more.

“We believe open communication and collaboration with the community are crucial in achieving various goals toward the closure and environmental remediation of the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility,” Rear Adm. Marc Williams, Deputy Commander, NCTF-RH, said in a statement.

Final cleansing of the 20 massive tanks that make up the Red Hill underground fuel storage facility in Hawaii will take three to four years, Williams said Jan. 17 during the announcement of the establishment of Navy Closure Task Force-Red Hill.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in March 2022 ordered the World War II-era facility closed in the wake of a jet fuel spill in late 2021 that contaminated the Navy’s water distribution system that served roughly 93,000 people.

In November, more than 100 military family members, including active-duty service members, and civilians filed federal-court claims against the Navy over the catastrophic contamination of the water supply.

Contributing: Stars and Stripes reporter Wyatt Olson.