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 […]
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 […]
DIRE Challenge to Expemption for Injections Wells Turned Down
DIRE is considering options, may appeal to Circuit Court April 29, 2010 The Maui Planning Commission voted 5-1 to uphold Planning Director Jeff Hunt’s determination that the Division of Wastewater Management is exempt from having to obtain a special management area permit to build two replacement injection wells at the Kahului wastewater treatment plant. Commissioner […]