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 […]
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 […]
Historic Stream Restoration Needs Your Kōkua
Please make a tax-deductible donation to help cover Legal Notice costs for essential Water Use Permit Applications. UPDATE: Stream Restoration Legal Efforts Make Progress Efforts by Hui o Na Wai ‘Eha, Maui Tomorrow and Earthjustice to restore continuous mauka to makai stream flows to the four great waters of ‘Iao, Waiehu, Waihe‘e and Waikapu are […]
Groups Seek to Restrict Water Diversions
Maui News Thursday, Dec. 7, 2006 HONOLULU – Two Maui groups have filed a petition with the state Commission on Water Resource Management urging the commission to designate the Wailuku watershed to restrict water diversions by Wailuku Water Co. and Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. The petition filed Wednesday by Earthjustice for Maui Tomorrow Foundation […]
Streams in Hawaii Show Slow Decline
By Mary Adamski, Honolulu Star-Bulletin Sunday, December 5, 2004 Streams make news when they overflow during a deluge, but a new federal study reveals that the flow in island streams has declined over the past 90 years. The trend may be bad news about a dwindling drinking water supply, according to the U.S. Geological Survey […]