The Navy appears to have been worried that news coverage of the Red Hill site might pose a public-relations problem for it. To date, the Navy appears not to have done this. The Ewa Junction facility, no longer in use, occupies land between Leeward Community College, to the east, and the athletic field of Waipahu High School to the west. Watercress farms lie to the south. The City and County of Honolulu intends to give the Navy its land on the Pearl City Peninsula, site of an abandoned sewage treatment plant, in return for the Navy turning over this site to the city, for use as a maintenance facility and station for the proposed rapid transit system.
Negotiations are ongoing.
The remainder seeped into the soil, coming to rest on top of the groundwater table. The 1971 release is not the only potential source of contamination at this site. The agricultural application of EDB and DBCP has been prohibited since 1983 and 1977, respectively. Preliminary soil testing shows high levels of some contaminants. Benzene, for example, is present at levels as high as 1.3 parts per million, roughly a thousand times the cleanup standards set by the state Department of Health.