Our thanks to Robin Knox of the UH Botany Department and Pam Daoust for providing the following: There are two aspects of use of wetlands for wastewater management to discuss. 1) Constructed wetlands as treatment 2) Wetland assimilation projects – Due to higher assimilative capacity ( especially for nitrogen), wetlands get less stringent water quality-based […]
OUR PUBLIC TRUST WATER IN EAST MAUI
A FINANCIAL EXERCISE REGARDING by John Blumer-Buell A question and “food for thought”: What is the estimated monetary value of the public trust water taken from East-Maui streams and watersheds by private corporations Hawaii Cane and Sugar (HC&S) and East-Maui Irrigation (EMI) over the past twenty years, while illegally depriving kanaka maoli the right to […]
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 […]