CHAPTER 5.21
FUEL HANDLING AND STORAGE
The Reconnaissance Report recommended that new fuel storage
tanks be installed to replace existing tanks on Parry and Eniwetok
Islands. To provide protection for the new tanks against the very
corrosive action of salt spray, and to reduce maintenance requirements,
it was decided to install the tanks in shallow excavations and to cover
them completely with coral. In order that this might be done easily,
it was suggested that 1,000 barrel (42,000 gallon) horizontal cylindrical steel tanks be used. The quantities of various fuels recommended
for storage were based on estimates of requirements arrived at in
conferences between representatives of J~Division and Holmes &
Narver. Following are the tankages recommended in the original
Reconnaissance Report:
Site
Fuel
Parry
L. ©. gasoline
Eniwetok
Eniwetok
aviation gasoline
motor oil
Perry
Eniwetok
diesel oil
diesel oil
Tanks
2
4
4
4
3
Gallons
84, 000
168, 000
168, 000
168, 000
126, 000
Because fuel supplies were to be delivered by the Navy, it was
necessary to consider in detail the Navy requirements and delivery
schedules and to coordinate with Eniwetok garrison requirements.
On June 7, 1949, at conferences held at Pearl Harbor and
attended by representatives of Holmes & Narver, J-Division, (and CINCPAC)
the fuel storage requirements for Eniwetok and Parry were again
discussed, and revised quantities were
were given the Engineering Division on
number and capacities of storage tanks
requirements firmed up at Pearl Harbor
approved. Specific instructions
June 27, 1949, about the
for the two sites. These
formed the basis for the
statements about fusl storage capacity contained in the Fuel Handling
and Storage Section of Supplement No. 1 to the Reconnaissance Report,
issued in July 1949. Following are the tankages approved at the
Pearl Harbor conferences and subsequently listed in Supplement No. 1:
On Parry Island:
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1.
Motor gasoline ~ 82,000 gallons in four 10,000 gallon
tanks and one 1,000 barrel (42,000 gallon) tank.
2.
Diesel oil - 134,000 gallons in five 10,000 gallon tanks
and two 1,000 barrel (42,000 gallon) tanks.