Water

Protect Our Water Wells

Testimony offered by Sierra Club, Maui Group October 17, 20013 PO box 791180 Paia, HI 96779 To: Board of Water Supply 200 South High Street, Fifth Floor, Wailuku, Hawaii 96793-2155 RE: Agenda Item VIII. A. Discussion and possible action regarding the Regulatory – Legislative Investigative Committee’s report on the Draft Wellhead Protection Ordinance and its legislative impact on private and public properties. Aloha BWS members and mahalo for your service, Sierra Club Maui has had … Read more

Water on Maui

East Maui Water Development East Maui Water for South Maui Growth? East Maui Water: Myths & Facts View the Dept. of Water Supply Map Maui County Board of Water Supply Website USGS Iao & Waihe’e Aquifer Status USGS: Effects of Agricultural Land-Use Changes and Rainfall on  GroundWater Recharge in Central and West Maui, Hawai‘i, 1926–2004 USGS: Ground-Water Availability in the Wailuku Area, Maui, Hawai’i 2008 USGS: Groundwater Availability in the Lahaina District, West Maui, Hawai’i USGS: Groundwater Availability … Read more

East Maui Water

East Maui Water Development Plan

East Maui Water History

emaui-2For approximately 100 years, billions of gallons of East Maui stream waters, originating on publicly owned watershed lands, have been diverted. A series of ditches and tunnels controlled by Alexander and Baldwin (A&B), Inc. carry the water to the cane and pineapple fields of Upcountry & Central Maui. The County Board of Water Supply contracts with A&B for delivery of approximately 5% of this flow to supply water to the Haiku, Makawao and Kula areas.

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Two Maui streams restored

After years of essentially being drained dry and left for dead, two legendary streams on the Hawaiian island of Maui came back to life this week, thanks to the work of Earthjustice. The streams were diverted over a hundred years ago to irrigate sugar cane and pineapple plantations. Over time sugar and pineapple have faded in the islands, succumbing to cheaper foreign competition. This freed up the water to restore the streams. But the old … Read more

South Maui – East Maui Water?

Maui Group Chair, Daniel Grantham, testified at a recent public meeting on the East Maui Water Development Plan. The County’s Plan proposes 8 wells along the Kauhikoa Ditch in Ha`iku and a 36″ pipeline to transport 10-15 mgd of water to Central and South Maui. Maui Group members attended and expressed their concerns: declining rainfall aver-ages in East Maui, lack of solid data on minimum stream flows, effects of well pumping on streams, exploitation of … Read more