June 30, 2010 Mahalo for this opportunity to offer comments on the Draft EIS for this project on behalf of the six hundred members of Sierra Club Maui Group. Sierra Club has offered input to this project since its expansion to 670 acres in the late 1980’s. We have long felt that the sensitive characteristics […]
Honua’ula Draft EIS
The Maui News June 23, 2010 By CHRIS HAMILTON, Staff Writer WAILUKU – The Maui Planning Commission got the first public look Tuesday at detailed designs for the long-debated – and for many – long-awaited Honua’ula 1,400-unit housing development in South Maui. Tuesday was the first of two opportunities the commission will have to review, […]
Attorney: Water Commission ‘Wilted’
Panel: Decision strikes a balance between values, responsibilities The Maui News June 11, 2010 By ILIMA LOOMIS, Staff Writer The state Commission on Water Resource Management on Thursday ordered 12.5 million gallons of water per day be allowed to flow in the Na Wai Eha streams in the West Maui Mountains, about one-third of the […]
Compromise Decided for East Maui Streams
Amounts of water returned by HC&S to depend on season MAUI NEWS May 26, 2010 By CHRIS HAMILTON, Staff Writer PAIA – State Commission on Water Resource Management members reached a historic compromise Tuesday night, returning some water to six East Maui streams but leaving both sides in the water dispute dissatisfied. Hawaiian Commercial & […]
Councilors seek to place restrictions on injection wells
By ILIMA LOOMIS,Staff Writer The Maui News April 29, 2010 WAILUKU – County Council members on Wednesday debated proposals to require the Department of Environmental Management to come up with a plan to recycle more wastewater and conduct sampling for water contamination before spending money to rehabilitate existing injection wells. Council Member Wayne Nishiki introduced […]
Council Proposes Requiring Reuse Not Injection
While DIRE and Maui Tomorrow were downstairs attempting to convince the Maui Planning Commission to do an Environmental Assessment on their $2,000,000 replacement sewage injection wells at Kahului, the Council was upstairs passing a rider on the funds to require the Department of Environmental Management to come up with a plan to recycle more wastewater […]