RED HILL FUEL STORAGE TANKS Missouri ST（红色山燃料储罐密苏里州科技）.pdfVIP

RED HILL FUEL STORAGE TANKS J. David Rogers, Ph.D., P.E., R.G. Karl F. Hasselmann Chair in Geological Engineering University of Missouri-Rolla Facts About the Red Hill Storage Tanks  Construction began Christmas 1940, completed September 1943  Project included 20 cylindrical tanks 100 feet diameter, 250 feet high  Design capacity of 6 million barrels fuel oil (255 million gallons)  Final cost: $42 million  16 men died during construction  Project also pumps 30 millions gallons per day of drinking water to surrounding area Factors Leading to Construction  Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor all of the Navy’s fuel was stored in unprotected above ground tanks at Pearl Harbor, next to the submarine base  When RADM Chester Nimitz was Commander of the Bureau of Yards Docks (in 1940) he wanted the Navy’s 2-1/2 year supply of fuel oil protected from aerial attack  Standard practice was to dig a trench and bury the tanks, but this was impractical to store 255 million gallons of fuel oil Initial Plan  The Navy’s plan was to dig a series of tunnels and insert the tanks  Finding a suitable site was problematic, Oahu is underlain by the Koolau Volcanic series, and these flows are full of vugs, clinker, underground streams, and pools  Navy engineers finally settled on Red Hill, about two miles from Pearl Harbor, as it was mostly homogeneous basalt Location of Red Hill and Pearl Harbor Red Hill  Red Hill was not owned by the Navy, it was then under cultivation for sugar cane and pineapple plantations  The Navy leased the land, cleared and leveled it, then began construction of temporary work camps  Eventually the plantation owners were forced to sell out to the Navy through direct condemnation. Planning and D