HAZARD EVALUATION & EMERGENCY RESPONSE (HEER) OFFICE

The U.S. Navy has prepared a Record of Decision (ROD) presenting the selected remedy for the Pearl Harbor Sediment site, which is part of the Pearl Harbor Naval Complex NPL (National Priorities List) site, CERCLIS ID No. HI4170090076, located at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi. The NPL identifies priorities among known releases or threatened ...
Read More Final Cleanup Decision: Pearl Harbor Sediment

The HEER Office has been developing new technical guidance for the evaluation of chemical exposure hazards to coastal marine wildlife over the last several years and has now posted initial guidance on this topic in the on-line HEER Office Technical Guidance Manual (TGM). See Section 21 in the link to the HEER TGM below. The ...
Read More TGM Update, Section 21: Environmental Risk Assessment Guidance for Marine Coastal Environments

An Areawide EHE/EHMP for the Kahului Harbor Industrial District (Interim Final, dated June 2018, Version 1) is linked below for review and comment. Comments are requested by November 30, 2018 and should be sent to Iris van der Zander via e-mail at [email protected]. Comments received will be considered for revisions or improvements to Version 1 ...
Read More Proposed Areawide EHMP: Kahului Harbor Industrial District

Hawaiʻi News Now video featuring Chris Lee explaining the function of the Environmental Response Revolving Fund (ERRF), describing the ERRF funding crisis, and discussing legislative action needed to avoid losing critical positions at DOH that protect our environment.

A new Draft HEER Office Technical Guidance Manual (TGM) Section on LNAPL/Petroleum Guidance is linked below for review and comment by environmental consultants and other interested individuals. Comments are requested by August 31, 2018. See the Invitation to Comment letter also linked below for details on the ways you may comment and where to send ...
Read More Draft TGM Update, Section 9.3: LNAPL / Petroleum Guide

The HEER Office has approved a final cleanup action plan for a portion of the Old Hilo Canec Plant site near Waiākea Pond in Hilo, Hawaiʻi, TMK 3-2-2-030-017. The soils in parts of this site are known to be contaminated with arsenic that was used at the former canec plant to treat the canec panels ...
Read More Final Cleanup Decision: Old Hilo Canec Plant, 3/23/2018

The HEER Office is inviting public review and comment on the proposed draft Response Action Memorandum (Draft RAM) to address soil and groundwater contamination that has been identified on an approximately 25-acre portion of the former Waialua Sugar Mill in Waialua on Oʻahu, TMK 1-6-7-001-062 (portion). The environmental investigation at this site was carried out ...
Read More Proposed Cleanup: Waialua Sugar Mill (comments 3/4/2018 – 4/6/2018)

The Hawaiʻi Department of Health has conducted biomonitoring pilot studies assessing mercury and arsenic levels in clients of DOH’s WIC Program (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children). Results of these studies are now available. 2018-02 HDOH Biomonitoring Pilot Study Hair Mercury Levels in WIC Program Clients 2018-02 HDOH Biomonitoring Pilot Study Hair ...
Read More Biomonitoring Pilot Studies: Mercury and Arsenic Levels in Hair in WIC Clients

A new draft Section of the HEER Office Technical Guidance Manual (TGM), on Environmental Risk Assessment Guidance for Marine Coastal Environments, is linked below for review and comment by environmental consultants and other interested individuals. **Comments are requested by March 30, 2018**. See the Invitation to Comment letter also linked below for details on the ...
Read More Draft TGM Update, Section 21: Environmental Risk Assessment Guidance for Marine Coastal Environments (February 2018)