LOCATION
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

CLIENT
Department of the Navy

PARTICIPANTS
Abhe & Svoboda, Inc.
Hayworth Enterprises

SCOPE OF WORK
Excavation
PCB Contaminated Soil Disposal
Shotcreting
Concrete Repair
Membrane Lining

VALUE
$5.61 million

SCHEDULE
1994 - 1996

Pearl Harbor is the headquarters of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet and the site of one of the most famous events in modern American history. On December 7, 1941 the Japanese launched a devastating attack on the Naval ships in Pearl Harbor, which forced the United States to enter World War II. Despite the loss of several battleships, much of the Naval Base's infrastructure remained intact, including the fuel storage facilities.

Many historians and military experts have noted that the failure of the Japanese to destroy the Pearl Harbor Tank Farm was a major failure on their part. The fuel tank farms held the entire fuel supply for the Pacific Fleet (140 million gallons), and could have been destroyed with a single bomb, which in turn would have severely hampered the US recovery and fighting capability. As it turns out these fuels reserves were vital to the initial phase of the War.

In 1996, Abhe & Svoboda, Inc. completed an oil spill prevention project at the Pearl Harbor tank farm. The general work description for this project included: construction of new secondary containment berms, re-grading and repair of existing berms, lining of berms with flexible membrane liners (FML), cast in place concrete pavements, catch basins, drain lines, oil/water separators, electrical conduit, lighting, removal of abandoned pipelines, removal and disposal of petroleum and PCB contaminated soil and hazardous waste incidental to any project grading, trenching and demolition, and overflow piping.